The New Inquisition or Crashing the Gate

The New Inquisition: Understanding and Managing Intellectual Freedom Challenges

Author: James LaRu

How can you become an effective advocate for intellectual freedom and patron privacy while maintaining a positive relationship with diverse elements of your community? Drawing on his experience as library director, this author advocates assuming a proactive role in every library function, from collection building to community outreach. This approach helps you understand the people who challenge library materials--as individuals and as members of various groups--turning enemies into allies, and building an intellectual, freedom-friendly community. You'll learn what materials get challenged and why and how you can effectively respond to challenges while meeting diverse community needs. Here are stories from the frontlines, practical guidelines on policies and procedures as well as common-sense tips on how to maintain your cool while dealing with specific groups or individuals--all presented with common sense and humor. If you have been struggling with challenges and wonder how you can uphold your ideals while dealing with harsh realities, this is the book you have been waiting for.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction: The Blue Line     xi
The Need for and Purpose of This Book     xiii
Scope and Audience     xiii
Background: A Historical Perspective     1
History of Censorship: The Burning of Books     1
Definitions     3
The Constitution and the First Amendment: Foundations of Intellectual Freedom     5
The Library Bill of Rights     15
But What about the Children?     19
Obscenity     20
Religion and Libraries     27
Big 16     28
Madonna     30
Focus on the Family     34
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints     44
The Difference between FOF and the Mormons     49
Reading with the Enemy     50
Generations     57
Types and Life Cycles     59
Public Education: A Profile     61
Focus on the Family: Redefining the Mission     65
Anything Goes?     67
Responding to Challenges     71
Who Are They?     71
The Initial Response     74
The Written Responses: Letters     80
When the Issue Doesn't Die     84
Beyond the Basics: Taking It to the Street     89
The Pyramid Model     89
Geographic Information Systems     94
Becoming a Player     95
The Rubber Chicken Circuit     99
Public Speaking and Writing     99
Using Your Reputation     100
Newspaper Columns     101
Other Media     103
Politics     104
Professional Activity     107
Conclusion: The Fourth Turning?     109
Kid Stuff     109
I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag...     109
Tancredo and Immigration     113
There Is Always a New, a Next Inquisition     115
Appendix     117
Letters     117
Columns     144
References and Resources     149
Reference List     149
Intellectual Freedom Resources     150
Index     153

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Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics

Author: Jerome Armstrong

Crashing the Gate is a shot across the bow at the political establishment in Washington, DC and a call to re-democratize politics in America.

This book lays bare, with passion and precision, how ineffective, incompetent, and antiquated the Democratic Party establishment has become, and how it has failed to adapt and respond to new realities and challenges. The authors save their sharpest knives to go for the jugular in their critique of Republican ideologues who are now running—and ruining—our country.

Written by two of the most popular political bloggers in America, the book hails the new movement—of the netroots, the grassroots, the unorthodox labor unions, the maverick big donors—that is the antidote to old-school politics as usual. Fueled by advances in technology and a hunger for a more authentic and populist democracy, this broad-based movement is changing the way political campaigns are waged and managed.

A must-read book for anyone with an interest in the future of American democracy. "

About the Authors:
Jerome Armstrong, a pioneer of the political blogosphere, founded one of the first political blogs, MyDD.com, in 2001. The person behind the netroots strategy that used blogs and meetups for Howard Dean's campaign, Jerome works as an internet strategist for advocacy organizations and political campaigns. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

Markos Moulitsas Zъniga served in the U.S. Army for three years and later earned two bachelors degrees from Northern Illinois University and a law degree from Boston University. After moving to California to work in the tech industry, Markos started DailyKos.com in May 2002. His blog has had a meteoric rise and now gets more than a million unique visitors each day, making it one of the most popular blogs in the nation. Markos lives in Berkeley, California.

Simon Rosenberg is president and founder of the New Democrat Network, a national membership organization that promotes strategies to modernize progressive politics. Before founding NDN, Rosenberg was a key member of Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. He and his family live in Washington DC.

The New York Times - Peter Beinart

Armstrong and Moulitsas may well be right that the next great partisan transformation will be theirs. In Crashing the Gate they have written an insightful guide to how the Democratic Party can retake power. Now all they need to do is figure out why it deserves to.

Library Journal

Armstrong (MyDD.com) and Zuniga (DailyKos.com), both popular liberal political bloggers, offer a critique of Democrats and lay out their strategy to save the party and win back control of government at all levels. They present a blistering attack on the Republican Party's ideological constituencies-the theocons, neocons, corporate cons, etc.-and the policies of the Bush administration, but they move quickly to a lengthy critique of the Democratic Party, which they describe, borrowing from Howard Dean, as a collection of single-issue interest groups (e.g., pro-choice, environmental, big labor, and gun control advocates) unwilling to make concessions for the greater good: the success of the party. The authors also note outdated old-boy systems of raising money, outmoded campaign strategies, and a lack of technological sophistication. The Democrats must nurture places where new ideas germinate, such as the world of the blog. Their plan strikes this reader as na ve, considering that Dean didn't win a single primary and that the Republicans have successfully mobilized large numbers of people in support of their candidates. Moreover, they assume that their progressive ideas are, in fact, what the masses subscribe to. While the book may spark some interest among blog readers and writers, its wider appeal will be limited. Recommended for larger public libraries and academic libraries with comprehensive holdings on campaigns and elections. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Reinventing Public Health or Liberty and Power

Reinventing Public Health: Policies and Practices for a Healthy Nation

Author: Lu Ann Aday

Reinventing Public Health offers guidance for translating the growing body of research on the fundamental social, economic, and ecological determinants of health into innovative programs and policies to improve the health of populations.

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Reviewer: Ross M. Mullner, PhD, MPH (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Description: This book reconceptualizes the field of public health. It presents a bold new public policy orientation to improve the health of the population of the United States, and to reduce the nation's health disparities. The book also discusses the initiatives taken by several other nations, particularly Canada, to redress social inequities.
Purpose: According to the editor: "The book introduces a framework for identifying, arraying, and evaluating the evidence regarding the fundamental social, economic, and ecological determinants of population health and health disparities; explores the role of related development policies in influencing these fundamental determinants; and suggests alternative models of more health-centered policy and program design incorporating a consideration of the fundamental determinants of health."
Audience: This book is written for graduate students in public health, public policy, medical sociology, and political science. The editor, Lu Ann Aday, is a nationally known, highly respected professor and scholar from the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston.
Features: The book consists of seven chapters. Each of the chapters is well crafted and flows nicely into the next with little overlap. A large name and subject index concludes the book.
Assessment: This is a very refreshing new look at public health. Unlike many textbooks in public health which basically repeat what has been said many times before, this book looks at public health from a new and original perspective. It is well organized, well written, and well researched. I highly recommend it!

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody

Table of Contents:

1	Analytic framework	1
2	Fundamental determinants of population health	35
3	Sustainable development	65
4	Human development	106
5	Economic development	183
6	Community development and public health	237
7	Toward a healthy (re)public	285

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Liberty and Power: A Dialogue on Religion and U. S. Foreign Policy in an Unjust World

Author: J Bryan Hehir

What role should religion play in shaping and implementing U.S. foreign policy?

The dominant attitude over the last half century on the subject of religion and international relations was expressed well by Dean Acheson, Harry Truman's secretary of state: "Moral Talk was fine preaching for the Final Day of Judgment, but it was not a view I would entertain as a public servant." Was Acheson right?

How a nation "commits itself to freedom" has long been at the heart of debates about foreign aid, economic sanctions, and military intervention. Moral and faith traditions have much to say about what is required to achieve this end. And after September 11, no one can doubt the importance of religious beliefs in influencing relations among peoples and nations.

The contributors to this volume come at the issue from very different perspectives and offer exceptional and unexpected insights on a question now at the forefront of American foreign policy.

Author Description:
J. Bryan Hehir is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and was formerly the president and CEO of Catholic Charities U.S.A.

Michael Walzer is a leading American political theorist and a professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. He is the author of several books, including Just and Unjust Wars.

Louise Richardson serves as the executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and is an expert in international terrorism and defense policy.

Shibley Telhami is Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland and a non-resident senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of numerous books, including the national bestseller The Stakes (Westview).

Charles Krauthammer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist at the Washington Post. He contributes frequently to Time Magazine, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, and The National Interest.

James M. Lindsay is vice president and director of studies of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he holds the Maurice R. Greenberg Chair. He was previously deputy director and senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. His books include Agenda for the Nation (Brookings 2003) and Defending America: The Case for Limited National Missile Defense (Brookings 2001). In 1996-97, Lindsay was director for global issues and multilateral affairs on the National Security Council staff.

Developing Global Executives or Faith and the Presidency

Developing Global Executives: The Lessons of International Experience

Author: Morgan W McCall

In our borderless global economy, companies must ship their executives nearly as far and wide as their products. Whether these far-flung executives soar or land with a thud may make all the difference between a successful international enterprise or a world-class failure -- and it is this crucial difference that Developing Global Executives defines.

Based on a wide-ranging study of veteran global executives, leadership development experts Morgan W. McCall, Jr. and George P. Hollenbeck reveal what it takes for organizations to groom, and individuals to become, successful international executives. The answer sounds deceptively simple: People learn to "be global" from doing global work. But therein lies a tricky distinction -- what specific types of career experiences are the ones that prepare global leaders for their roles? To what extent can individuals seek out -- and companies help orchestrate -- these experiences?

In Developing Global Executives, leading global executives help answer these questions. Through their candid, rich, and varied stories, readers learn who global executives are, what distinguishes them from domestic leaders, and which experiences have been most critical to mastering their extremely demanding careers.

In addition, these "lessons from the field" underscore the key requirements and challenges of effective leadership in a global environment: from the importance of continuous learning and the crucial role of mentors to the difficulties in overcoming "culture shock" and the warning signs of potential derailment. Practical and far-sighted, this book offers a wealth of firsthand insights for aspiring and current international executives and the organizations that employ them.

With today's ever-increasing complexity in business, organizations need to capitalize on every developmental opportunity. Developing Global Executives will help you do just that by providing a thorough itinerary and useful guide for executives moving in the new, completely global environment. On your exploratory journey through the book, you will meet many fascinating people, learn from their stories, and come away with real wisdom.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction: A World of Possibilities	1
2	What Is a Global Executive?	19
3	Global Journeys: The Lives of Global Executives	41
4	The Lessons of International Experience	77
5	Experiences That Teach Global Executives	107
6	Making Sense of Culture	129
7	When Things Go Wrong	153
8	Developing Global Executives: The Organization's Role	171
9	Building a Global Career: The Individual's Part	197
10	Epilogue	213
	App. A: Interview Questions	219
	App. B: Methodology	223
	App. C: Supplementary Tables	227
	Notes	241
	References	247
	Index	251
	About the Authors	259

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Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush

Author: Gary Scott Smith

In the wake of the 2004 election, pundits were shocked at exit polling that showed that 22% of voters thought "moral values" was the most important issue at stake. People on both sides of the political divide believed this was the key to victory for George W. Bush, who professes a deep and abiding faith in God. While some fervent Bush supporters see him as a man chosen by God for the White House, opponents see his overt commitment to Christianity as a dangerous and unprecedented bridging of the gap between church and state.
In fact, Gary Scott Smith shows, none of this is new. Religion has been a major part of the presidency since George Washington's first inaugural address. Despite the mounting interest in the role of religion in American public life, we actually know remarkably little about the faith of our presidents. Was Thomas Jefferson an atheist, as his political opponents charged? What role did Lincoln's religious views play in his handling of slavery and the Civil War? How did born-again Southern Baptist Jimmy Carter lose the support of many evangelicals? Is George W. Bush, as his critics often claim, a captive of the religious right? In this fascinating book, Smith answers these questions and many more. He takes a sweeping look at the role religion has played in presidential politics and policies. Drawing on extensive archival research, Smith paints compelling portraits of the religious lives and presidencies of eleven chief executives for whom religion was particularly important.
Faith and the Presidency meticulously examines what each of its subjects believed and how those beliefs shaped their presidencies and, in turn, the course of our history.

Library Journal

Given the separation of church and state specified by the Second Amendment, Americans have both contested and championed the expression of religious faith by their leaders. Smith (history, Grove City Coll.) carefully collects and collates the personal views and attitudes on religion and the relations with religious institutions and constituencies of 11 U.S. Presidents: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Wilson, both Roosevelts, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Carter, Reagan, and George W. Bush. "In the final analysis," Scott concludes, "we must be careful not to make too much or too little of the influence of presidents' faith on how they performed their duties. Scholars have tended to take it into account too little; some critics and admirers have given it too much attention." Methodologically, Smith is less than persuasive in his attempts to demonstrate cause-and-effect relationships between faith and policy. But readers need not share his perspective or conclusions in order to thank him for the wealth of source material and historical detail he has amassed on a fascinating and important topic. Recommended for all libraries.-Steve Young, McHenry Cty. Coll., Crystal Lake, IL Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Lincoln on Democracy or My Way or the Highway

Lincoln on Democracy

Author: Mario Cuomo

Back in print after ten years, this unique book brings together 141 speeches, speech excerpts, letters, fragments, and other writings by Lincoln on the theme of democracy. Selected by leading historians, the writings include such standards as the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address, but also such little-seen writings as a letter assuring a general that the President felt safe-drafted just three days before Lincoln's assassination. In this richly annotated anthology, the writings are grouped thematically into seven sections that cover politics, slavery, the union, democracy, liberty, the nation divided, and the American Dream. The introductions are by well-known historians: Gabor Borritt, William E. Gienapp, Charles B. Strozier, Richard Nelson Current, James M. McPherson, Mark E. Neely, Jr., and Hans L. Trefousse. In addition, each section's title page displays a photograph of Lincoln from the time period covered in that section, with a paragraph describing the source and the occasion for which the photograph was made.

Table of Contents:

	Preface to the Fordham University Press edition
	Preface
	Introduction
	"Not much of me" : Lincoln's "autobiography," age 50, December 20, 1859
I	"The people's business" : Lincoln and the American dream, 1832-1852
	Introduction	3
	No wealthy ... relations to recommend me	9
	I shall be governed by their will	11
	The people know their rights	12
	Injustice and bad policy	13
	The political religion of the nation	15
	The wealthy can not justly complain	24
	Many free countries have lost their liberty	25
	'God tempers the wind'	26
	The sorrow quenching draughts of perfect liberty	28
	By the fruit the tree is to be known	30
	Useless labour is ... the same as idleness	32
	The right to rise up	34
	No one man should hold the power	36
	There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good	38
	Leaving the people's business in their hands	40
	Go to work, 'tooth and nails'	41
	Valuable to his adopted country	43
	Resolve to be honest	44
	The presidency ... is no bed of roses	46
	Principles held dear	49
	A deep devotion to the cause of human liberty	51
II	"All we have ever held sacred" : Lincoln and slavery, 1854-1857
	Introduction	55
	We proposed to give all a chance	62
	'To do for the people what needs to be done'	63
	Our Republican robe is soiled	65
	No peaceful extinction of slavery in prospect	78
	I am not a know-nothing	80
	This great principle of equality	84
	Free society is not ... a failure	86
	A standard maxim for free society	88
	Not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots	92
III	"Another explosion will come" : Lincoln and the house divided, 1858
	Introduction	97
	Government cannot endure ... half slave and half free	105
	The electric cord in that declaration	114
	Fight this battle upon principle	118
	This expresses my idea of democracy	121
	Return to the fountain	121
	I claim no ... exemption from personal ambition	123
	The moral lights around us	125
	Our reliance is in the love of liberty	127
	Never have had a black woman for either a slave or a wife	128
	Give to him that is needy	130
	'He trembled for his country'	132
	The eternal struggle	134
	The fight must go on	136
IV	"Right makes might" : Lincoln and the race for president, 1859-1960
	Introduction	141
	Sole hope of the future	148
	He who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave	154
	Aim at the elevation of men	156
	The moral lights around us	157
	Equality ... beats inequality	159
	Free labor ... gives hope to all	160
	Let us stand by our duty	164
	The laborer can strike if he wants to	175
	Allow the humblest man an equal chance	176
	I accept the nomination	177
	Work, work, work is the main thing	178
	I rejoice with you in the success	179
	The tug has to come	180
V	"Hour of trial" : Lincoln and union, 1861
	Introduction	183
	The principle that clears the path for all	188
	If we surrender, it is the end of us	189
	With a task before me	190
	Liberty, for yourselves, and not for me	191
	There is but little harm I can do	192
	Give the greatest good to the greatest number	193
	The majority shall rule	194
	The ship can be saved, with the cargo	195
	In accordance with the original idea	196
	I would rather be assassinated	198
	Plain as a turnpike road	199
	The momentous issue of Civil War	201
	I hope we have a government and a president	210
	The perpetuity of popular government	211
	We can not permanently prevent their action	213
	Suspend the Writ of Habeas Corpus	214
	The central idea pervading this struggle	215
	A Polish gentleman ... highly recommended	216
	This is ... a people's contest	217
	Allow no man to be shot	226
	I cannot assume this reckless position	227
	Wanting to work is so rare	229
	The capacity of man for self-government	230
	The struggle of today ... for a vast future also	231
VI	"Forever free" : Lincoln and liberty, 1862-1863
	Introduction
	The principle of the equal rights of men	243
	Gradual ... emancipation, is better for all	244
	Government was saved from overthrow	246
	Our common country is in great peril	247
	A fit and necessary military measure	249
	Your race are suffering	251
	My paramount object in this struggle	253
	God wills this contest	254
	The time has come now	255
	Thenceforward, and forever free	257
	To suppress the insurrection	260
	Breath alone kills no rebels	262
	A fiery trial	263
	We cannot escape history	264
	The promise must now be kept	269
	Sincerely believed to be ... an act of justice	270
	An instance of sublime Christian heroism	273
	I will risk the dictatorship	275
	Resist ... such recognition	276
	Public safety does require the suspension	277
	The decision is to be made	282
	How long ago is it? - eighty odd years	283
	My 'public-opinion baths'	284
	Those who shall have tasted actual freedom ... can never be slaves	285
	Better prepared for the new	286
	You say you will not fight to free Negroes	288
	The boundless field of absolutism?	292
	Has the manhood of our race run out?	293
	I do not intend to be a tyrant	296
VII	"For us the living" : Lincoln and democracy, 1863-1865
	Introduction	301
	New birth of freedom	307
	You will not find that to be an obstacle	308
	The new reckoning	309
	I have never interfered ... in any church	311
	Common looking people are the best in the world	312
	Universal amnesty ... with universal suffrage	313
	Keep the jewel of liberty	314
	Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another	315
	Never knew a man who wished to be ... a slave	316
	If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong	316
	The limb must be sacrificed	319
	A good definition of the word liberty	320
	So that they can have the benefit	321
	May I have to answer for robbing no man	323
	A fitting, and necessary conclusion	324
	The people's business	325
	I should deserve to be damned	325
	Kindly paying attention	327
	Any one of your children may look to come here	328
	My duty to co-operate	329
	The purposes of the almighty are perfect	330
	Struggling to maintain government, not to overthrow it	331
	Discharge him at once	332
	The election was a necessity	333
	Not the sort of religion upon which people can get to heaven	335
	The voice of the people	336
	Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude ... shall exist	338
	A king's cure for all the evils	339
	With malice toward none	340
	I have always thought that all men should be free	343
	A righteous and speedy peace	344
	A union of hearts and hands	349
	Afterword : the Abraham Lincoln association	351
	Lincoln, the nation, and the world : a chronology, 1809-1865	355

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My Way or the Highway: The Micromanagement Survival Guide

Author: Harry E Chambers

Most people think that micromanagement occurs only in management-employee relationships, but the truth is that it happens everywhere: employees micromanage managers, customers micromanaging vendors, board members micromanaging company leaders, parents micromanage children, governments micromanage citizens, peers micromanage one another, and more. With shoot-from-the-hip style and plenty of real-world examples, My Way or the Highway illustrates how micromanagement interferes with performance and productivity, resulting in huge costs - hidden, direct, and indirect - to individuals and organizations. In highly practical terms, management expert Harry Chambers explains the art of dealing with micromanagers at a personal level and how to introduce the more system-wide changes needed for productive environments. Readers learn valuable strategies for lessening the impact of micromanagers, as well as how to identify and correct their own managerial behaviors.