New Book Explores the Continued Use and Abuse of the 1960s by American Presidents
New Book Explores the Continued Use and Abuse of the 1960s by American Presidents
San Francisco, CA (Vocus) October 26, 2010
It’s election season, and throughout the land politicians of all stripes are framing the issues at hand. Who is to blame for our current economic woes, Obama, or Bush? What really happened these past few years? And how did a socialist hippie radical terrorist-coddling mosque-loving non-citizen foreigner ever get to be president, anyway?
Framing the past; that’s what politicians do. And no decade of American history has been argued over more than the 1960s. “If you look back on the sixties and, on balance, you think there was more good than harm in it, you’re probably a Democrat,” said Bill Clinton in 2004, “and if you think there was more harm than good, you’re probably a Republican.”
The issues raised by the 1960s remain the central dividing line in American politics, as Bernard von Bothmer details in his insightful new historical analysis—the first of its kind, Framing the Sixties: The Use and Abuse of a Decade from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush (University of Massachusetts, .95, paper).
Framing the Sixties examines the battle over the collective memory of the decade primarily through the lens of presidential politics. Dr. von Bothmer, who teaches American history at the University of San Francisco and at Dominican University of California, shows how four presidents—Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush—each sought to advance his political agenda by consciously shaping public understanding of the meaning of “the Sixties.” He compares not only the way that each depicted the decade as a whole, but also their commentary on a set of specific topics: the presidency of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” initiatives, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War.
Those 1960s just won’t go away and die, will they? Whether it’s the controversy over Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s past statements regarding his service during the Vietnam War, or the debate whether Afghanistan (wait—wasn’t it Iraq?) is another Vietnam, or why Glenn Beck chose to hold his rally on the anniversary of the “I Have a Dream” speech, the 1960s remain the template for American politics.
Liberals today are on the defensive. The Tea Party has harnessed energy over the supposed expansion of Big Government. To their critics, the Tea Party is composed of racists and hate-mongers, harsh reminders of the 1960s. To their supporters, Obama is nothing more than a 21st- century L.B.J., “Lyndon Baines Obama,” as he has been called—in their eyes also a harsh reminder of the 1960s.
This, of course, is not a recent phenomenon. We’ve been arguing about the ‘60s ever since Ronald Reagan invented something called “the sixties” back in the 1960s themselves.
It is no secret that the upheavals of the 1960s opened fissures within American society that have continued to affect the nation’s politics and to intensify its so-called culture wars. Yet it is remarkable to observe the extent to which political leaders, left and right, consciously exploited those divisions by framing the memory of that turbulent decade to serve their own partisan interests.
“Despite a forty-year remove, the tumult of the sixties and the subsequent backlash continues to drive our political discourse,” wrote Barack Obama in 2006 in The Audacity of Hope. When he announced his presidential run in January 2007, Obama expressed his desire to have America’s leaders move beyond the preoccupations of the baby boomers.
“My reaction when I read his speech?” said von Bothmer. “Good luck, Senator. It’s not going to happen. Eventually we will get over the 1960s, just as we got over the 1860s, the 1890s, and the 1930s. When every voice heard here has fallen silent, we will be done talking about the 1960s—but only then.”
In Framing the Sixties, Bernard von Bothmer relies on a trove of primary sources in building his position that the sixties will continue to define us for at least another decade or so until the last of the baby-boom generation exits the stages of power. He also offers future historians a wealth of new primary sources—in the form of more than 120 interviews he conducted with cabinet members, speechwriters, advisors, strategists, historians, journalists, and activists from across the political spectrum. Notable interviews include: James A. Baker III, Edwin Meese III, Michael Dukakis, Bill Bradley, Robert Bork, Arthur Schlesinger, Noam Chomsky, Bob Woodward, Gary Hart, Richard Viguerie, Daniel Ellsberg, Julian Bond, Caspar Weinberger, Archibald Cox, Nicholas Katzenbach, Tom Hayden, and Phyllis Schlafly.
The book’s scholarship has hardly escaped notice. Douglas Brinkley, author of Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War and professor of history, Rice University, calls Framing the Sixties a “truly important and essential study. Von Bothmer has done a marvelous job of setting the historical record straight. Instead of relying on staid orthodoxy, he analyzes the spin factor irresponsibly promulgated by both Right and Left.”
Tom Brokaw, author of The Greatest Generation and Boom! Talking About the Sixties, says it’s a “smart, important and impressively researched account of the decade that far too often is reduced to clichés by the Left and the Right. . . . invaluable to anyone eager to know the real story behind the political and cultural consequences of that tumultuous time.”
Another scholar, Michael Kazin, coauthor of America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s and professor of history at Georgetown University, writes, “This fine book illustrates the truth of the maxim that history is what the present wants to know about the past. To understand why the meaning of the 1960s remains a critical matter for both conservatives and liberals, Bernard von Bothmer’s careful study is the place to start.”
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Framing the Sixties: The Use and Abuse of a Decade from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush
By Bernard von Bothmer
University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst and Boston
.95 paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-732-0
.00 library cloth edition, ISBN 978-1-55849-731-3
About the Author
Bernard von Bothmer teaches American history at the University of San Francisco, where he received USF’s 2010 Distinguished Lecturer Award for Excellence in Teaching, and at Dominican University of California. He was born and raised in New York City and received a BA with honors from Brown University, an MA from Stanford University, and a PhD in American history from Indiana University.
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Profiles to Partners, Powered by The Mayer Group, Launches Innovative Online Candidate eValuation System
Profiles to Partners, Powered by The Mayer Group, Launches Innovative Online Candidate eValuation System
Overland Park, KS (PRWEB) October 21, 2010
Profiles to Partners (PtP) announces the launch of the eVal system, a web-based Candidate Employee eValuation tool available online 24/7. The eVal System is ideal for screening candidates for hire or placement by providing companies with unbiased, job-related, reliable, professional data for the final selection decision.
Much more than a background check or employee screening, the eVal System, designed by Ken Mayer, Vice President of The Mayer Group, will help company owners and senior executives assess candidates using job specific profile questionnaires, psychometric testing, and job simulations that are “hand crafted” by Profiles to Partners for each company.
“In today’s business world, a bad hire or a valued employee in the wrong position can hurt your company’s productivity, profitability and ability to compete,” says Dee Mayer, Owner of The Mayer Group. “The key to our success is our Candidate Match eValuation System. We developed this web-based eVal System to bring efficiency to the gathering and analysis of data needed to make an informed selection. The result? A highly effective data gathering and success forecasting tool.”
“Profiles to Partners was an invaluable tool to us,” said Cathy Wright, Partner at Overland Resource Group. “The website was simple to navigate, and it’s great to have a wealth of information on each candidate stored in one place where it’s always available to view.”
The Johnson County Christmas Bureau has also been very pleased with the Mayer Group’s Profiles to Partners services in their search for a new executive director. “Having their expertise was wonderful, and saved us time and stress. The entire process was streamlined and much more effective than if we had tried to do it ourselves,” said Barb O’Donnell, Board President – JCCB.
Every eVal System engagement begins Profiles to Partners working closely with company executives to custom develop everything needed to identify the ideal candidate, including position and candidate profiles, questionnaires, and job simulation exercises. Companies who have used this system have experienced more engaged employees, more efficient processes, and higher overall performance. Ken Mayer concludes, “Imagine the impact this could have on your organization.”
About Profiles to Partners and The Mayer Group
The Mayer Group was founded in 1994 to offer professional advisory, coaching, and facilitation services focused on achieving measurable performance and value enhancement goals for their clients. The Profiles to Partners proprietary process enables both the company and the candidate to “thoughtfully consider” each other. From unique questionnaires, work simulations and assessments, the discovery process provides in-depth, objective and relevant information that identifies employees who possess the greatest promise of delivering results. They have already helped more than 120 clients.
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DNS Made Easy Reconfirms Commitment to Expanding Infrastructure
DNS Made Easy Reconfirms Commitment to Expanding Infrastructure
Reston, VA (Vocus) October 21, 2010
DNS Made Easy, the world leader in IP Anycast DNS services, reconfirmed the company’s commitment to providing additional network and system capacity to the DNS Made Easy infrastructure for Q4 2010 and Q1 2011. Additional capacity will allow for future growth, prevent service degradation during Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, provide additional redundancy, and increase performance to geographical areas of expansion.
“We have seen DDoS attacks grow in size and duration over the past year, primarily due to the growing size of botnets on the Internet. Companies maintaining an Internet presence or providing Internet services are required to focus on emerging threats to prevent downtime and service degradation,” stated Steven Job, President of DNS Made Easy. “DNS Made Easy has nearly a decade of providing enterprise DNS services on a global scale, and has handled a multitude of DDoS attacks, many of which were notable in size and duration. Our Network Operations team is constantly revaluating Tier 1 transit provider agreements, collocation facilities, and industry security intelligence as well as internal attack data to prevent downtime and provide the highest quality DNS services to our clients.”
Planned network expansion of the DNS Made Easy network includes additional points of presence in Europe, South-East United States, and Mid-West United States for Q4 2010. This expansion will increase the DNS Made Easy global points of presence by 20% and network capacity by at least 20%, and strengthen the DNS Made Easy DNS Defense platform.
“From a network operations perspective, increasing points of presence and network capacity is an important part of maintaining our infrastructure and providing our client base with the peace of mind they have grown accustomed to while relying on the DNS Made Easy infrastructure. My involvement in past attack mitigation makes network capacity expansion an obvious goal. As broadband Internet access is deployed in developing countries, we are seeing an increase in botnet activity across the board and this is certainly something that DNS Made Easy wants to address earlier rather than later,” said David Miller, VP of Network Operations.
Additional points of presence in Chicago and Amsterdam will increase DNS Made Easy’s peering arrangements with a number of Tier 1 Internet providers. Chicago is particularly important to traffic destined for the northern center of the continental U.S. Amsterdam will provide additional redundancy for the DNS Made Easy London points of presence and further increase the infrastructure’s European capacity. As a hub for European Internet traffic, Amsterdam will also provide increased performance for European clients.
DNS Made Easy has already proven to have the best Return on Investment in the industry. The addition of multiple points of presence to an already well established global network will only provide additional ROI for our customer base. “Historically, DNS Made Easy has reinvested as much as 80% of profits back into infrastructure,” said Steven Job. “This is an investment decision that is very atypical in the industry. We believe in providing the best possible infrastructure to insure a continued reputation for best ROI and reliable service.”
About DNS Made Easy
DNS Made Easy is a subsidiary of Tiggee LLC and is a leader in providing global IP Anycast enterprise DNS services. DNS Made Easy launched their DNS services and web management portal in 2002 and has grown to manage hundreds of thousands of customer domains receiving more than 1.5 billion queries per day. DNS Made Easy has a proud history of 99.9999% DNS uptime and industry leading ROI since launching their DNS service.
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African-American Author, Dr. Marcia Smart, Reveals Innovative Leadership
African-American Author, Dr. Marcia Smart, Reveals Innovative Leadership
Longwood, FL (Vocus) October 20, 2010
With many Fortune 1000 companies restructuring and downsizing, as well as ongoing economic setbacks facing state and local governments, leaders are desperately looking for innovative ways to maximize resources. That is why African-American author Marcia Smart, Ph.D., has penned The Hidden Power of Informal Leadership. This groundbreaking book, published by Xulon Press, pioneers a newly evolving leadership approach for 21st century management, and is geared toward leaders who are looking for creative ways to improve team performance.
What is Informal Leadership?
Informal Leadership provides a short and effective route to mobilize people and produce outstanding results. It also provides fresh insights on how to inspire Informal Leaders and leverage their strengths to achieve results way beyond what is expected.
Readers of The Hidden Power of Informal Leadership will discover who informal leaders are and what drives them. Employers will learn how to increase their organizations success by tapping into the hidden talents and skills of their employees to: enhance performance and innovation; stay ahead of the game; and make more impactful changes and decisions.
With more than 25 years of experience in corporate and business leadership, Dr. Smart says she has always been fascinated by the company behind the formal organizational charts, the people who really get the jobs done in these organizations. “My interest in what goes on in the subculture of groups and organizations has led me to study the field of informal leadership extensively,” says Dr. Smart.
Xulon Press, a division of Salem Communications, is the world’s largest Christian publisher, with more than 8,000 titles published to date. Retailers may order The Hidden Power of Informal Leadership through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors. The Hidden Power of Informal Leadership is also available online through xulonpress.com/bookstore, amazon.com, and barnesandnoble.com. (.99, paperback, ISBN 978-1-60957-673-8; .99, hardcover, ISBN 978-1-60957-674-5).
About Dr. Marcia Smart
Marcia Smart, Ph.D., is a Leadership Strategist and Inspirational Speaker with a doctorate in Adult Development, Organizational Learning and Leadership and a Master’s in Business Administration. Dr. Smart’s diverse clients include Fortune 500 companies, professional associations, universities, faith-based organizations and nonprofits.
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Onlineshoes.com Knows a Good Fit When They See It
Onlineshoes.com Knows a Good Fit When They See It
Seattle, WA (PRWEB) October 15, 2010
Onlineshoes.com (http://www.onlineshoes.com/) is excited to announce two major moves, both of which signify confidence in the marketplace and ready the company for future growth.
Since September 2005, corporate headquarters has occupied the seventh floor of downtown Seattle’s Metropolitan Park East Tower (1730 Minor Avenue). To kick off the third quarter of 2010 in grand fashion, Onlineshoes.com took out an additional lease to expand to the building’s entire second floor. Simultaneously, the company shifted its warehouse operations from Mukilteo, Washington to the Columbus, Ohio distribution center of the highly respected Network Global Logistics (NGL), based in Broomfield, Colorado.
The Customer Service and Photography departments previously sited in Mukilteo have relocated to Minor Avenue. Onlineshoes.com now occupies nearly 37,000 square feet of prime real estate in downtown Seattle.
Since being established as the first company to sell shoes on the internet in 1996, Onlineshoes.com has enjoyed a history of steady growth, weathering economic challenges that have shuttered many businesses.
Still a privately held company, Onlineshoes.com saw its inception in a 10′ x 10′ room at the back of the North Seattle shoe store opened in 1968 by company founder Daniel Gerler’s father. Initially, five brands of footwear were represented, including New Balance and Saucony, which remain popular sellers on the site to this day. Over 250 brands of shoes, clothing and accessories are featured at Onlineshoes.com, and 10 additional brands will be launched before the end of the year.
Onlineshoes.com prides itself on being focused on customer satisfaction, for which it consistently receives the highest marks: It was recently named a winner in the 11th annual Bizrate Circle of Excellence Awards, an honor recognizing a select group of online retailers that provide outstanding customer experiences as rated by their own customers.
In March 2010, online customer service experts STELLAService released the results of the independent survey assessing the value consumers place on excellent customer service. Examined were the largest 150 e-commerce sites and Onlineshoes.com ranked 13th, along with such heavy-hitters as Amazon.com, Netflix.com, Apple.com and Crutchfield.com, all highly regarded for their customer service.
“Seattle is home to us, but our customers live all over the country. By moving warehouse operations to Ohio, we’re providing the highest population concentration with significantly faster delivery,” says Gerler. “What’s more, it’s been a terrific boost to our own sense of community to have the entire Onlineshoes.com family, now more than 170 employees strong, under the same roof for the first time in the company’s history.”
The additional space was logistically designed to accommodate the company’s near-term growth. Continues Gerler, “We’re a successful internet company in one of the most vibrant high-tech sectors in the country. Firmly planted as we are in downtown Seattle, Onlineshoes.com looks forward to further capitalizing on the area’s pool of talent and providing many local jobs in the future.”
About Onlineshoes.com: Established in 1996, Onlineshoes.com is the nation’s first online shoe retailer. With a history that began decades ago in a family-owned corner shoe store, the company is committed to delivering exceptional value and service. Onlineshoes.com offers the latest high-quality footwear for men, women and kids with more than 240,000 shoe and clothing choices from more than 250 name brands, as well as a wide selection of bags and accessories. Customers are entitled to a 110-percent price guarantee, a 365-day return policy, and free shipping and exchanges on most orders. For more information, visit www.onlineshoes.com.
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Finkelstein & Partners Law Firm Raises Food and Money for Hunger Awareness Month
Finkelstein & Partners Law Firm Raises Food and Money for Hunger Awareness Month
Newburgh, NY (PRWEB) October 14, 2010
Partners and staff of personal injury law firm Finkelstein and Partners participated in the second annual Hudson Valley Food Frenzy, located in Cornwall. The Food Frenzy is an event organized to raise food and monetary donations for the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley, in recognition of September’s Hunger Awareness Month. Run as a friendly competition, a prize is awarded to the company that brings in the largest total donation.
Finkelstein and Partners collected food and monetary donations at all of their Hudson Valley locations during the Food Frenzy competition – a total of 2,300 lbs. of food was collected. The Food Bank of the Hudson Valley serves the counties of Orange, Ulster, Dutchess, Rockland, Sullivan and Putnam. Last year, more than 8 million pounds of food was delivered by more than 360 participating organizations.
“The Food Bank of the Hudson Valley does a great job of providing food to those in need throughout our region,” said Andrew Finkelstein, Managing Partner of Finkelstein and Partners to The Sentinel. “Unfortunately as our area continues to struggle with the economy and people remain out of work, the number of people turning to the Food Bank is greater than ever. I’m proud that our firm family is pulling together to help others in our community through their time of need.”
Nearly 17.5 million or 15 percent of Americans went hungry in 2008, according to USpoverty.change.org. Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson established September as Hunger Awareness Month due to the region’s high demand for food assistance programs.
Founded in 1959 by Howard S. Finkelstein, Finkelstein & Partners holds multiple offices in New York and New Jersey, with a staff of more than 30 attorneys and 50 of counsel attorneys. Finkelstein & Partners, LLP represents plaintiffs in all types of personal injury claims, including single vehicle wrecks, traffic collisions, accidents in the work place, slip and fall injuries and more. If you have recently been involved in an accident and would like the unparalleled, and proven, legal experience of Finkelstein & Partners behind you, please contact us today.
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