Oriented toward the introductory student; The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for today's undergraduate courses. The editors; David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelényi; have assembled the most important classic and contemporary readings about how poverty and inequality are generated and how they might be reduced. With thirty new readings; the second edition provides new materials on anti-poverty policies as well as new qualitative readings that make the scholarship more alive; more accessible; and more relevant. Now more than ever; The Inequality Reader is the one-stop compendium of all the must-read pieces; simply the best available introduction to the stratifi cation canon.
#418820 in Books Brian J Snee 2016-04-18Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.30 x .70 x 6.30l; .0 #File Name: 0813167477166 pagesLincoln before Lincoln Early Cinematic Adaptations of the Life of America s Greatest President
Review
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The Cinematic LincolnBy Albert A. NofiA summary of the review on StrategyPage.Com'Opening by observing that Lincoln; certainlythe most well loved President; has also been thesubject of more cinematic treatments than anyother president; Prof. Snee (Manhattanville)proceeds to offer an analysis of the ways inwhich portrayals of “Honest Abe†have evolvedfrom his earliest appearance on film over acentury ago through Speilberg’s Lincoln in 2012.After an opening chapter surveying the types ofportrayals before Spielberg’s; Snee groups themany films; television mini-series; and what not;into sive chapters; each centering on a particularfeature; from Griffith’s "Birth of a Nation"; inwhich Lincoln plays a marginal role in hiscapacity as national healer; through "Gore Vidal’sLincoln"; which Snee characterizes as “Anti-Lincoln.†Snee makes an excellent case for theargument that not until Spielberg; was Lincoln’srole as the “Great Emancipator†clearly the maintheme of any of the films; which usually treatedhim as the “Great Commonerâ€; “Savior of theUnion;†or “Honest Abeâ€; which while certainlylegitimate images; avoided the central issue ofslavery. Anyone interested in Lincoln; historicalmemory; film; or popular culture will find this ofgreat interest.'For the full review; see StrategyPage.Com
