Author: R. Douglas Arnold Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability is the first large-scale examination of how local media outlets cover members of the United States Congress. Douglas Arnold asks: do local newspapers provide the information citizens need in order to hold representatives accountable for their actions in office? In contrast with previous studies, which largely focused on the campaign period, he tests various hypotheses about the causes and consequences of media coverage by exploring coverage during an entire congressional session. Using three samples of local newspapers from across the country, Arnold analyzes all coverage over a two-year period--every news story, editorial, opinion column, letter, and list. First he investigates how twenty-five newspapers covered twenty-five local representatives; and next, how competing newspapers in six cities covered their corresponding legislators. Examination of an even larger sample, sixty-seven newspapers and 187 representatives, shows why some newspapers cover legislators more thoroughly than do other papers. Arnold then links the coverage data with a large public opinion survey to show that the volume of coverage affects citizens' awareness of representatives and challengers. The results show enormous variation in coverage. Some newspapers cover legislators frequently, thoroughly, and accessibly. Others--some of them famous for their national coverage--largely ignore local representatives. The analysis also confirms that only those incumbents or challengers in the most competitive races, and those who command huge sums of money, receive extensive coverage.

Author: MEL AYTON Believing himself to be on a God-given mission, Joseph Paul Franklin was the only racially motivated serial killer ever pursued by the Justice Department. Mel Ayton examines his murderous life, from his poverty-stricken youth in a backward Alabama suburb to his indoctrination by militant Nazis and southern racists to his eventual capture by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Aytons exhaustive report uncovers the truth behind Franklins three-year undertaking to murder Jews and African Americans. White supremacist Franklin was, by his own admission, an outlaw, a racist, and weird. As a neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klansman, he violently enforced his views by embarking on a lone hunter mission to kill. He saw African Americans and Jews as subhuman and knew no moral obstacle to racial violence, invoking the Bible to support his criminal acts. As Franklins 197780 killing spree was contemporaneous with other racially charged incidents that other Klansmen and neo-Nazis wrought throughout the United States, his story also exposes how hate organizations have made killers out of disaffected and bitter young men. In this first full-length book about Franklin, Ayton reveals a shocking and unsavory side of American society.

Author: John F. Witte Milwaukee, one of the nation's most segregated metropolitan areas, implemented in 1990 a school choice program aimed at improving the education of inner-city children by enabling them to attend a selection of private schools. The results of this experiment, however, have been overshadowed by the explosion of emotional debate it provoked nationwide. In this book, John Witte provides a broad yet detailed framework for understanding the Milwaukee experiment and its implications for the market approach to American education. In a society supposedly devoted to equality of opportunity, the concept of school choice or voucher programs raises deep issues about liberty versus equality, government versus market, and about our commitment to free and universal education. Witte brings a balanced perspective to the picture by demonstrating why it is wrongheaded to be pro- or anti-school choice in the abstract. He explains why the voucher program seems to be working in the specific case of Milwaukee, but warns that such programs would not necessarily promote equal education--and most likely harm the poor--if applied universally, across the socioeconomic spectrum. The book begins with a theoretical discussion of the provision of education in America. It goes on to situate the issue of school choice historically and politically, to describe the program and private schools in Milwaukee, and to provide statistical analyses of the outcomes for children and their parents in the experiment. Witte concludes with some persuasive arguments about the importance of specifying the structural details of any choice program and with a call supporting vouchers for poor inner-city children, but not a universal program for all private schools. Voucher programs continue to be the most controversial approach to educational reform. The Market Approach to Education provides a thorough review of where the choice debate stands through 1998. It not only includes the Milwaukee story but also provides an analysis of the role, history, and politics of court decisions in this most important First Amendment area.

Author: G.M. de Rochmondet En 1830, Madame G.M. de Rochmondet publie a compte d'auteur les Etudes sur la traduction de l'anglais, un ouvrage qui se distingue des ouvrages anterieurs sur la question de la traduction de l'anglais vers le francais. Peu connu, son travail s'oppose aux etudes anterieures qui se fondaient sur un auteur en particulier ou qui se concentraient sur la (re)traduction des Anciens. Utilisant un corpus de textes anglais publies au XVIIIe siecle, Rochmondet presente une theorie de la traduction litteraire et elabore un vocabulaire original pour decrire la traduction. Bien plus qu'un simple manuel destine a fournir des exercices de traduction aux etudiants de l'epoque, les Etudes sur la traduction de l'anglais forment un ouvrage si complet que l'on ne peut que songer a une these ou a un ouvrage longuement muri. On ne sait rien de l'auteure, sinon qu'elle se presente comme une femme qui aurait enseigne l'anglais et la traduction. Les textes qu'elle analyse laissent deviner une femme d'une grande erudition, au fait de la litterature anglaise. Sa connaissance de nombreux textes francais portant sur la traduction montre egalement qu'elle a mene une reflexion approfondie sur le role de la traduction litteraire dans le cas particulier de la culture francaise. L'appareil critique de Benoit Leger montre en quoi la position de cette traductrice est novatrice. Une bibliographie des traductions et des textes theoriques publies en France au XIXe siecle completent cette edition.