Bell hooks radical feminism6/30/2023 ![]() In between the first and the second wave, French feminist author Simone de Beauvoir published a foundational book that set the tone for the next surge of women’s rights activism. National Women’s History Museum The Predecessor Image Collage: Simone de Beauvoir 1939 - 1967 Much like the first wave that developed during a period of social reform, the second wave also took place amidst other social and political movements. Although many of these activists continued to fight for women’s rights, the next sustained feminist movement is believed to have started in the 1960s. ![]() National Women’s History Museum FEMINISM : The Second WaveĪfter the ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920, which granted women the right to vote, the first wave of feminism slowed down significantly. "A new era for women workers, minority women and lesbians" 1976 ![]()
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Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King6/30/2023 ![]() These recollections-engaged, irreverent, and affecting-bring dimension and texture to the collective witnessing of a formative time in their lives and a defining moment in the country’s history. In addition, twelve fellow students and friends from King’s college days contribute personal narratives recalling their own experience of those years. The stereoscopic combination of these narratives, told with King’s characteristic blend of canny insight and self-deprecating humor, create a revealing portrait of the artist as young man and a ground-level tableau of this highly charged time. In his accompanying essay, “Five to One, One in Five,” written expressly for this volume, King sheds his fictional persona and takes on the challenge of a nonfiction return to his undergraduate experience. King’s fictional treatment of this experience in his novella “Hearts in Atlantis” (reprinted in this volume) tracks his youthful avatar, Peter Riley, through the awakenings and heartbreak of his turbulent first year at UMaine. ![]() ![]() The accelerating war in Vietnam and great social upheaval at home exerted a profound impact on students of the period and deeply influenced King’s development as a writer and as a man. This publication marks the 50th anniversary of Stephen King’s entrance into the University of Maine at Orono in the fall of 1966. ![]() The threat by andrew g mccabe6/30/2023 ![]() Under Director Robert Mueller, McCabe led the investigations of major attacks on American soil, including the Boston Marathon bombing, a plot to bomb the New York subways, and several narrowly averted bombings of aircraft. He became an expert in two kinds of investigations that are critical to American national security: Russian organized crime - which is inextricably linked to the Russian state - and terrorism. McCabe started as a street agent in the FBI's New York field office, serving under director Louis Freeh. ![]() McCabe offers a dramatic and candid account of his career and an impassioned defense of the FBI's agents and of the institution's integrity and independence in protecting America and upholding our Constitution. In The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump, Andrew G. President Donald Trump celebrated on Twitter: "Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - A great day for Democracy." McCabe was fired from his position as deputy director of the FBI. On March 16, 2018, just 26 hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction for more than two decades, Andrew G. ![]() The instant number one New York Times best seller! ![]() |