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Pivotal Tuesdays
Serious and silly, unifying and polarizing, presidential elections have become events that Americans love and hate. Today's elections cost billions of dollars and consume the nation's attention for months, filling television airwaves and online media with endless advertising and political punditry, ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America <P><P>Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earli... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
American Dreams: Opportunity and Upward Mobility (Miller Center Studies on the Presidency)
by Peter Wehner • Michael Nelson • William A. Galston • Margaret O'Mara • Richard Schragger • Melody Barnes • Cristina Lopez-Gottardi Chao • Guian McKee • Robert C. PiantaIn an increasingly polarized political environment, the first year of the new president’s term will be especially challenging. With a fresh mandate, however, the first year also offers opportunities that may never come again. The First Year Project is a fascinating initiative by the Miller Center of... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Long Year: A 2020 Reader (Public Books Series)
by Eric Klinenberg • Joan Wallach Scott • Julie Livingston • Natalia Molina • Jun Li • Guobin Yang • Andrew Lakoff • Priscilla Wald • Warwick Anderson • Warren Breckman • Adam Tooze • Ananya Roy • Sophie Lewis • Neha Vora • Margaret O'Mara • Yarimar Bonilla • Merlin Chowkwanyun • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor • Margaret Morganroth Gullette • Marcia Chatelain • Jacob A.C. Remes • Joanne Randa Nucho • Xiaowei Wang • Miguel Centeno • Jean-Paul Gagnon • Keisha N. Blain • Sulfikar Amir • Mustafa Dikeç • David Schmidt • Gautam Bhan • David S. Barnes • Isabelle Guérin • Andy Horowitz • Simon Balto • Éric Charmes • Max Rousseau • Michelle Cera • Gilles Guiheux • Ye Guo • Renyou Hou • Manon Laurent • Anne-Valérie Ruinet • Govindan Venkatasubramanian • Mathieu Ferry • Marine Al Dahdah • Sherihan Radi • Jeffrey Aaron Snyder • Rachel Nolan • Evan Lieberman • Julia Foulkes • Soledad Álvarez Velasco • Sophie Gonick • Alfonso Fierro • Erick Corrêa • Gianpaolo Biaocchi • Jake Carlson • Quentin Ravelli • Rikki J. Dean • Afsoun Afsahi • Emily Beausoleil • Selen A. Ercan • Cordula Dittmer • Daniel F. Lorenz • Kathryn Cai • Kavita SivaramakrishnanSome years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley
What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital? How can a city or region become a high-tech powerhouse like Silicon Valley? For over half a century, through boom times and bust, business leaders and politicians have tried to become "the next Silicon Valley," but few have succ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Choice and Circumstance: Racial Differences in Adolescent Sexuality and Fertility
First published in 1986. Forty five percent of black women have at least one child by the time they are turn twenty compared to 19 percent of white women. Eight-six percent of the births to black teens occurred to unmarried mothers compared to 30 percent among whites. Research shows that teenage chi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1986