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Jon Wiener

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Description:“It is frightening to think that [Wiener] teaches history at a university...”—Jacques Derrida“Wiener takes the modern university as his beat, & covers it like a police reporter...Wiener’s mean streets are the think tank, the scholarly symposium, & the faculty lounge. & when he’s had enough of this academic low life, he listens to Elvis, Springsteen & the Beatles. He even listens to Frank Sinatra.”—John Leonard“In this book, Jon Wiener demonstrates his great skill as guerrilla sharpshooter in the 40-year war that the National Security State has been conducting against the American people. These reports from the field—the resistance—illuminate Nixon & Watergate as never before, reveal in fascinating detail the turbulence within Academe, invoke pity if not awe for that unexpected victim of state, Frank Sinatra.”—Gore Vidal“Wiener is good at spotting, & blasting, paranoid fantasy & incompetence in high (& low) places & his range of targets is impressively wide...[his] surveys are lucid, trenchant & brief.”—ObserverAcknowledgmentsDeconstructing de ManDebating de ManThe responsibilities of friendship : Jacques Derrida on Paul de Man's collaborationThe Sears case : women's history on trial The Sears case : what happened? Dealing with deadwood : the Arizona approach Capitalist shock therapy : the Sachs plan in PolandThe odyssey of Daniel Boorstin Footnotes to history : the David Abraham caseBringing Nazi sympathizers to the US : Talcott Parsons's rolePoles, Jews, and historians : the case of Norman Davies Campus capitalism : Harvard chases biotech bucks The CIA goes back to college Dollars for neocon scholars : the Olin money treeAccuracy in academia : Reed Irvine rides the paper tigerHistory wars : why the right is losing in academe School for spooks : Yale and the CIA Law profs fight the power Free speech for campus bigots? Racial hatred on campus Looking back, moving ahead: students today & the sixtiesFreshman activists Divestment report card: students, stocks & shanties Campus voices, right & left. Radical historians & the crisis in American history, 1959-80Crossing the lines: Taylor Branch gives the movement its dueThe liberal imagination and the antiwar movement The New Left as history Chicago '68 revisited Black social experience & radical politics in AlabamaWhen Old Blue Eyes was Red Inside the Nixon liebrary John Lennon versus the FBIBeatles buy-out: how Nike bought the Beatles' RevolutionCrushing a dead Beatle : the case of Albert Goldman Rockin' with Ron: Springsteen and Reagan Reggae and revolution A soft rain : Dylan Tocqueville, Marx, Weber, Nixon: Watergate in theoryTom Hayden's new workout The other Nancy Davis: not necessarily the First LadyFootnote, or perishIndexWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Professors, Politics and Pop (Haymarket Series). To get started finding Professors, Politics and Pop (Haymarket Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: “It is frightening to think that [Wiener] teaches history at a university...”—Jacques Derrida“Wiener takes the modern university as his beat, & covers it like a police reporter...Wiener’s mean streets are the think tank, the scholarly symposium, & the faculty lounge. & when he’s had enough of this academic low life, he listens to Elvis, Springsteen & the Beatles. He even listens to Frank Sinatra.”—John Leonard“In this book, Jon Wiener demonstrates his great skill as guerrilla sharpshooter in the 40-year war that the National Security State has been conducting against the American people. These reports from the field—the resistance—illuminate Nixon & Watergate as never before, reveal in fascinating detail the turbulence within Academe, invoke pity if not awe for that unexpected victim of state, Frank Sinatra.”—Gore Vidal“Wiener is good at spotting, & blasting, paranoid fantasy & incompetence in high (& low) places & his range of targets is impressively wide...[his] surveys are lucid, trenchant & brief.”—ObserverAcknowledgmentsDeconstructing de ManDebating de ManThe responsibilities of friendship : Jacques Derrida on Paul de Man's collaborationThe Sears case : women's history on trial The Sears case : what happened? Dealing with deadwood : the Arizona approach Capitalist shock therapy : the Sachs plan in PolandThe odyssey of Daniel Boorstin Footnotes to history : the David Abraham caseBringing Nazi sympathizers to the US : Talcott Parsons's rolePoles, Jews, and historians : the case of Norman Davies Campus capitalism : Harvard chases biotech bucks The CIA goes back to college Dollars for neocon scholars : the Olin money treeAccuracy in academia : Reed Irvine rides the paper tigerHistory wars : why the right is losing in academe School for spooks : Yale and the CIA Law profs fight the power Free speech for campus bigots? Racial hatred on campus Looking back, moving ahead: students today & the sixtiesFreshman activists Divestment report card: students, stocks & shanties Campus voices, right & left. Radical historians & the crisis in American history, 1959-80Crossing the lines: Taylor Branch gives the movement its dueThe liberal imagination and the antiwar movement The New Left as history Chicago '68 revisited Black social experience & radical politics in AlabamaWhen Old Blue Eyes was Red Inside the Nixon liebrary John Lennon versus the FBIBeatles buy-out: how Nike bought the Beatles' RevolutionCrushing a dead Beatle : the case of Albert Goldman Rockin' with Ron: Springsteen and Reagan Reggae and revolution A soft rain : Dylan Tocqueville, Marx, Weber, Nixon: Watergate in theoryTom Hayden's new workout The other Nancy Davis: not necessarily the First LadyFootnote, or perishIndexWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Professors, Politics and Pop (Haymarket Series). To get started finding Professors, Politics and Pop (Haymarket Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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