Author: Carl Bernstein File Type: epub The nuanced, definitive biography of one of the most controversial and widely misunderstood figures of our time the woman running a historic campaign as the 2016 Democratic presidential nomineeHillary Rodham Clinton. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with colleagues and friends and with unique access to campaign records, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Carl Bernstein has given us a book that enables us, at last, to address the questions Americans are insistentlyeven obsessivelyasking Who is she? What is her character? What is her political philosophy? And, what can we expect from Hillary if we elect her President of the United States? **Amazon.com ReviewRead an excerpt from *A Woman in Charge A Woman in Charge* is Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carl Bernsteins illuminating account of Hillary Rodham Clinton, revealing the complex of motivations and machinations behind her extraordinary life and career. Drawing on over 200 interviews with Clinton associates (both colleagues and adversaries), as well as major pieces written by and about the former First Lady, Bernstein has constructed an indelible portrait of perhaps the most polarizing figure in American politics, from her midwestern roots to her own presidential ambitions but dont take our word for it--read an excerpt from the first chapter and decide for yourself. Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. Chapter One Formationul lI adored [my father] when I was a little girl. I would eagerly watch for him from a window and run down the street to meet him on his way home after work. With his encouragement and coaching, I played baseball, football and basketball. I tried to bring home good grades to win his approval. Living History*l ulHillary Rodhams childhood was not the suburban idyll suggested by the shaded front porch and gently sloping lawn of what was once the family home at 235 Wisner Street in Park Ridge, Illinois. In this leafy environment of postwar promise and prosperity, the Rodhams were distinctly a family of odd ducks, isolated from their neighbors by the difficult character of her father, Hugh Rodham, a sour, unfulfilled man whose children suffered his relentless, demeaning sarcasm and misanthropic inclination, endured his embarrassing parsimony, and silently accepted his humiliation and verbal abuse of their mother. Yet as harsh, provocative, and abusive as Rodham was, he and his wife, the former Dorothy Howell, imparted to their children a pervasive sense of family and love for one another that in Hillarys case is of singular importance. When Bill Clinton and Hillary honeymooned in Acapulco in 1975, her parents and her two brothers, Hughie (Hugh Jr.) and Tony, stayed in the same hotel as the bride and groom. Dorothy and Hugh Rodham, despite the debilitating pathology and undertow of tension in their marriage (discerned readily by visitors to their home), were assertive parents who, at mid-century, intended to convey to their children an inheritance secured by old-fashioned values and verities. They believed (and preached, in their different traditions) that with discipline, hard work, encouragement (often delivered in an unconventional manner), and enough education at home, school, and church, a child could pursue almost any dream. In the case of their only daughter, Hillary Diane, born October 26, 1947, this would pay enormous dividends, sending her into the world beyond Park Ridge with a steadiness and sense of purpose that eluded her two younger brothers. But it came at a price Hugh imposed a patriarchal unpleasantness and ritual authoritarianism on his household, mitigated only by the distinctly modern notion that Hillary would not be limited in opportunity or skills by the fact that she was a girl. Hugh Rodham, the son of Welsh immigrants, was sullen, tight-fisted, contrarian, and given to exaggeration about his own accomplishments. Appearances of a sort were important to him he always drove a new Lincoln or Cadillac. But he wouldnt hesitate to spit tobacco juice through an open window. He chewed his cud habitually, voted a straight Republican ticket, and was infuriatingly slow to praise his children. He was rougher than a corncob and gruff as could be, an acquaintance once said. Nurturance and praise were left largely to his wife, whose intelligence and abilities he mocked and whose gentler nature he often trampled. Dont let the doorknob hit you in the ass on your way out, he frequently said at the dinner table when shed get angry and threaten to leave. She never left, but some friends and relatives were perplexed at Dorothys decision to stay married when her husbands abuse seemed so unbearable. She would never say, Thats it. Ive had it, said Betsy Ebeling,* Hillarys closest childhood friend, who witnessed many contentious scenes at the Rodham dinner table. Sometimes the doorknob remark would break the tension and everybody would laugh. But not always. By the time Hillary had reached her teens, her father seemed defined by his mean edgeshe had almost no recognizable enthusiasms or pretense to lightness as he descended into continuous bullying, ill-humor, complaint, and dejection. hrFrom Publishers Weekly Which Hillary Clinton will prevail in this sprawling, muddled biography? Is she a messianic idealist or a ruthless pragmatist given to negative ad campaigns and vilifying opponents? A liberal feminist firebrand or a closet traditionalist and Washington prayer-group fixture? A Lady Macbeth, a First Soul-mate, or a stand-by-your-man marital martyr? Bernstein (All the Presidents Men) gives us all these Hillarys, foggily uniting them by reference to her extraordinary capability for change and evolutionary development. (Then again, the Senate candidate who told voters largely what they wanted to hear seems much the same species as the Wellesley student-body president who was more interested in...achieving victory than in taking a philosophical position.) Bernsteins ill-balanced treatment puts the Journey-Hillarys mystic term for her politico-conjugal relationship with Bill Clinton-at the center of the story, particularly her dominant, sometimes disastrous role in Bills scandal-plagued administration. Ever the investigative reporter, the author serves up chapters of eye-glazing Whitewater arcana and probes Hillarys emotional turmoil as she defends Bill from bimbo eruptions, but flits through her entire post-impeachment career as a high-profile senator and leader of the Democratic party in a scant 19 pages. Bernstein provides a densely detailed road-map of Hillarys life, but we get little sense of where the Journey has taken her. Photos. Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.

Author: Laura K. McClure File Type: pdf This volume provides essays that represent a range of perspectives on women, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, tracing the debates from the late 1960s to the late 1990s.**

Author: Adam Fishwick File Type: pdf The working classes today are facing a new set of crises around increasing austerity, authoritarianism, exploitation, and surveillance. But in many places, and in many ways, they are resisting. From new forms of workplace organisation, migrant workers challenging their exploitation, struggles against digitalised work, and through alternative forms of grassroots mobilisation, working-class resistance is emerging in new and often unexpected spaces. Through a range of cases in Europe and from around the world, this book brings radical voices from sociology, political economy, labour relations, and media studies to offer an understanding of the potential of working-class struggles in and against these hard times. This engaging volume is an attempt to understand how new, dynamic sites of resistance in and outside the workplace are central to the different ways in which workers survive, disrupt, and create new ways of living. The perfect guide for students and academics looking for a critical and comprehensive collection dealing with contemporary and global cases of working-class resistance.**ReviewAusterity and Working-Class Resistance provides a fascinating and original account of the often denied practices of resistance, which at different spaces and times, within and outside Europe, have followed one of the most critical times of our modern history, including the economic, social, political and financial crises. It is also a riveting read, rich with fascinating human stories. (Valeria Pulignano, Professor of Sociology, KU Leuven) Austerity and Working-Class Resistance talks about the continuing relevance of a class perspective in understanding contemporary processes of opposition to neoliberal capitalism. The book does this without making an apology of class struggle but rather intending this as the ever-present condition of opposition to injustices, as a lived process of solidarity and collective organisation that can change the world. (Maurizio Atzeni, Lecturer in Labour and Industrial Relations, Loughborough University) Through the lens of survival, disruption and creation, this collection provides a novel contribution to studies of working class resistance to austerity across Europe and beyond. Drawing on and combining different strands of Marxism, this collection represents a worthy contribution to critiques of, and attempts to transcend, austerity. (Benjamin Selwyn, Professor of International Relations and International Development, University of Sussex) This important new book is a major contribution to our understandings of working class resistance in the age of austerity. It captures both a wide range of political arguments about resistance and a diverse international terrain of struggles. Teachers, researchers and practitioners of working class resistance will learn a great deal from reading and debating the essays in this rich collection. (Jonathan Davies, Professor of Critical Policy Studies, De Montfort University) Austerity and Working-Class Resistance makes a significant contribution to our understanding of ongoing resistance against capitalist exploitation. Case studies including the London Housing Movement, the Sans Papier Movement in France and recuperated factories in Argentina provide an impressive view of the diversity of contestation. Resistance is not only important for survival and disrupting capitalist accumulation, but it also succeeds in creating new alternatives for a different future. This volume is essential reading for all those of us who remain unreasonable and carry on challenging the status quo. (Andreas Bieler, Professor of Political Economy, University of Nottingham) Putting working class resistance at the core, this excellent collection provides a glimpse of hope in barbaric times. Going beyond traditional trade unionism, the book understands resistance as surviving the hardships of austerity and precariousness, as disrupting political and economic institutions, and as creative practices building alternatives beyond the current order. The cutting-edge analyses of what may seem at first glance marginalised and disparate struggles in a climate of defeat and lethargic stupor are a token of concrete utopias, prefiguring that a better future is possible. (Angela Wigger, Associate Professor Global Political Economy, Radboud University) The contributions to this book offer a much-needed breath of fresh air to contemporary understandings of working-class resistance in the current era of austerity-driven politics. By connecting critical political economy, labour relations and social movement studies, the editors have managed to produce an essential collection with leading authors in each of their fields. Besides the impressive geographical scope of the collection, there is also an excellent plurality of approaches within the growing sphere of disruption and resistance studies. (Monica Clua-Losada, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) About the AuthorAdam Fishwick is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies and Public Policy in the Department of Politics and Public Policy at De Montfort University. Heather Connolly is an Associate Professor of Employment Relations in the School of Business at the University of Leicester.

Author: Harri Englund File Type: pdf When Breeze FM, a radio station in the provincial Zambian town of Chipata, hired an elderly retired schoolteacher in 2003, no one anticipated the skyrocketing success that would follow. A self-styled grandfather on air, Gogo Breeze seeks intimacy over the airwaves and dispenses advice on a wide variety of grievances and transgressions. Multiple voices are broadcast and juxtaposed through call-ins and dialogue, but free speech finds its ally in the radio elder who, by allowing people to be heard and supporting their claims, reminds authorities of their obligations toward the disaffected. Harri Englund provides a masterfully detailed study of this popular radio personality that addresses broad questions of free speech in Zambia and beyond. By drawing on ethnographic insights into political communication, Englund presents multivocal morality as an alternative to dominant Euro-American perspectives, displacing the simplistic notion of voice as individual personal propertyan idea common in both policy and activist rhetoric. Instead, Englund focuses on the creativity and polyphony of Zambian radio while raising important questions about hierarchy, elderhood, and ethics in the public sphere. A lively, engaging portrait of an extraordinary personality, Gogo Breeze will interest Africanists, scholars of radio and mass media, and anyone interested in the history and future of free speech. **