Promises Kept or The Case for Impeachment

Promises Kept: A Memoir

Author: Sidney S McMath

Sidney Sanders McMath is a pivotal figure in the history of Arkansas, of the Democratic Party, and of American law. Still vibrant and engaged in his nineties, he sets out his story in full for the first time in this powerful and engaging memoir of his youth and his extensive military service, his rise and fall in public office, and his long career as a lawyer seeking justice for ordinary people. He has divided his life story into four parts. In the first, he shows how his early life in rural Arkansas sparked his commitment to people. Then he describes his service to democracy in the military, including his commission in the U.S. Marines, a battlefield promotion in the Pacific and other honors, and his subsequent advancement to the rank of major general. The revealing third section details McMath's extraordinary life in politics, starting with his explosive debut in 1945, when he and other veterans dethroned the state's most powerful and corrupt political machine. Later, as a two-term governor, he fulfilled his promise of reform and modernization: he brought the first roads and electricity to rural areas, fought the poll tax, and built the state's first medical center. McMath describes how he worked with President Truman to keep the segregationist Dixiecrats from taking over the Democratic Party -- and the presidency. He also helped change the party's rules so that black citizens could vote in primaries.

But here his story takes a dramatic turn: political opponents alleged bribery in the highway program, and although no indictments were handed down, McMath's political career ended. Arguing his case for the first time in fifty years, he sets the facts straight. McMath turned to the practice of law to fight for the people he had represented as governor. In the concluding section of the book he describes some of his most important cases, examples of how he put his life's experience, knowledge, and integrity in the service of those who had few resources. Sid McMath's memoir shows us the excitement and the hard choices of real democracy, offering compelling human stories, new information on past conflicts, and the crucial perspective of a man at the center of history.

Table of Contents:

	List of Illustrations	ix
	Dateline	xiii
	Foreword	xvii
	Acknowledgments	xxiii
	Prologue	xxv
Part 1.	Roots
I.	The Old McMath Homeplace	3
II.	John Ray Sanders	9
III.	Papa Rudd	15
IV.	The Confederacy and Reconstruction	21
V.	"Mother Mae"	25
VI.	"Old Judd"	29
VII.	"Pap"	33
VIII.	The Jack Parham Place	37
IX.	"Uncle Spooks"	39
X.	Bussey	41
XI.	Foreman and Taylor	47
XII.	Home Again	51
Part 2.	Duty Calls
I.	Hot Springs	63
II.	Elaine Broughton	75
III.	"The Old Breed"	81
IV.	My Hometown	87
V.	The Pull of the Corps	91
VI.	American Samoa	99
VII.	In the Mood	107
VIII.	New Zealand	109
IX.	Guadalcanal--The Solomon Islands	113
X.	Bougainville	127
XI.	Coconut Grove	155
XII.	Anne Phillips	159
Part 3.	Politics and After
I.	The GI Revolt	167
II.	Prosecuting Attorney	181
III.	My Race for Governor of Arkansas	191
IV.	The Governor's Mansion	213
V.	My First Term	225
VI.	My Second Term	245
VII.	Power Versus the People	267
VIII.	A Race for the Senate	295
IX.	Little Rock Central High School, 1957	301
X.	Vietnam	307
XI.	A People's Law Firm	319
XII.	Betty Dortch Russell	325
Part 4.	Conclusion	331
	"A Nation's Prayer"	337
Appendixes	Cases That Made a Difference
I.	Get the Facts	341
II.	Let the Jury Decide	349
III.	Sauce for the Goose	357
IV.	A Subsequent Shock Shows How: Admissibility	363
V.	Guns Don't Kill: Fleeing Fugitives Do	369
VI.	Advertisements That Prey: Negligent Inducement	373
VII.	Justice Weeps: A Petition for Redress	383
VIII.	A Scream in the Night	389
IX.	Death Takes a Holiday	397
X.	Poisoning a Neighbor's Well	403
XI.	Willful, Wanton, Reckless Disregard for Safety--A Policy Decision	415
XII.	Insult and Outrage--Defamation--Projecting an Innocent Person in a False Light	423
XIII.	Gee, Dad, That's a Lot of Tomatoes	431
XIV.	The Wrong Road Taken	449
XV.	Seek Justice, Plead for the Widow, Champion the Fatherless, Relieve the Oppressed--And Put the Money in Trust	459
	Index	465

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The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office

Author: Dave Lindorff

It's time to act--and this is the guide.

Now in paperback to meet a rising public demand, here is a hard-hitting argument for the impeachment of George W. Bush--and top members of his administration. Events since the book's hardcover release--including court decisions regarding war crimes and violations of the FISA law on wiretapping--have only heightened the urgency.

Methodically detailing the Bush regime's offenses and refuting its lies and deceptions, investigative reporter Dave Lindorff and constitutional rights specialist Barbara Olshansky explain why the president and his inner circle should be removed from office for high crimes and misdemeanors. Among the most grievous harms:

• misleading the nation into war
• authorizing and encouraging the use of torture
• failing in almost every way to defend the homeland and our borders
• undermining habeas corpus and other traditional rights
• illegal NSA wiretapping, mail opening, and other assaults on the Bill of Rights
• the catastrophic federal failure to respond to Hurricane Katrina

Against the Terror of Neoliberalism or Fundamentals of Fire Fighter Skills

Against the Terror of Neoliberalism: Politics beyond the Age of Greed

Author: Henry A Giroux

With its dream worlds of power, commercialization, and profit making, neoliberalism has ushered in new Gilded Age in which the logic of the market now governs every aspect of media, culture, and social life—from schooling to health care to old age. As the social contract becomes a distant memory, the new 'corporate state' distances itself from workers and minority groups, who become more disposable in a new age of uncertainty and manufactured fear.

This is the only book to connect the history, ideology, and consequences of neoliberal policies to education and cultural issues that pervade almost every aspect of daily life.

A significantly revised and updated new version of Giroux's 2003 book, The Terror of Neoliberalism, this book points to ways in which neoliberal ideology can be resisted, and how new forms of citizenship and collective struggles can be forged, to reclaim the meaning both of a substantive politics and of a democratic society.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction: Slouching Toward Bethlehem     1
The Emerging Authoritarianism in the United States: Political Culture Under the Bush/Cheney Administration     15
Spectacles of Race and Pedagogies of Denial     60
Disabling the Future: Youth in the Age of Market Fundamentalism     84
Neoliberalism as Public Pedagogy     112
The Politics of Hope in Dangerous Times     130
Against Neoliberal Common Sense: Rethinking Cultural Politics and Public Pedagogy in Dark Times     147
Notes     181
Index     218
About the Author     226

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Fundamentals of Fire Fighter Skills

Author: National Fire Protection Association

The Second Edition features a laser-like focus on fire fighter injury prevention, including a dedicated chapter on safety. Reducing fire fighter injuries and deaths requires the dedicated efforts of every fire fighter, of every fire department, and of the entire fire community working together. It is with this goal in mind that we have integrated the 16 Fire Fighter Life Safety Initiatives developed by the National Fallen Fire Fighter Foundation into Chapter 2, Fire Fighter Safety. In most of the chapters, actual National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System cases are discussed to drive home important points about safety and the lessons learned from those real-life incidents. It is our profound hope that this textbook will contribute to the goal of reducing line-of-duty deaths by 25 percent in the next 5 years.

El Laberinto de la Soledad y Otras Obras or The Age of Napoleon

El Laberinto de la Soledad y Otras Obras

Author: Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Compared to Ortega y GassetЖs The Revolt of the Masses for its trenchant analysis, this collection contains Octavio PazЖ most famous work, The Labyrinth of Solitude, a beautifully written and deeply felt discourse on MexicoЖs quest for identity that gives us an unequaled look at the country hidden behind the mask. Also included are Postscript, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, and Mexico and the United States, all of which develop the themes of the title essay and extend his penetrating commentary to the United States and Latin America.

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The Age of Napoleon

Author: J Christopher Herold

THE AGE OF NAPOLEON is the biography of an enigmatic and legendary personality as well as the portrait of an entire age. J. Christopher Herold tells the fascinating story of the Napoleonic world in all its aspects — political, cultural, military, commercial, and social. Napoleon's rise from common origins to enormous political and military power, as well as his ultimate defeat, influenced our modern age in thousands of ways, from the map of Europe to the metric system, from styles of dress and dictators to new conventions of personal behavior.