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  • American Philanthropic Foundations

    Regional Difference and Change

    Edited by David C. Hammack, Steven Rathgeb Smith ...
    Essays examining the origins, development, and achievements of charitable organizations in key US cities and regions.Once largely confined to the biggest cities in the mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes states, philanthropic foundations now play a significant role in nearly every state. Wide-ranging and incisive, the essays in American Philanthropic Foundations: Regional Difference and Change examine ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Philanthropic Foundations

    Regional Difference and Change

    by Steven Rathgeb Smith, Alan Abramson, Natalie Alm, Kate Anderson, Helmut Anheier, Jessica Elfenbein, Peter Frumkin, Elise Hagesfeld, David Howard0, Martin Lehfeldt1, Beth Lovelady2, Heather MacIndoe3, Arleda Martinez4, Carol J. Silverman5, Stefan Toepler6, Jamil Zainaldin7 ...
    Once largely confined to the biggest cities in the mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes states, philanthropic foundations now play a significant role in nearly every state. Wide-ranging and incisive, the essays in American Philanthropic Foundations: Regional Difference and Change examine the origins, development, and accomplishments of philanthropic foundations in key cities and regions of the United ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States

    A Reader

    Edited by David C. Hammack ...
    Series series
    "It is a delight to seen an anthology on nonprofit history done so well."—Barry Karl, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University"This is a volume that everyone concerned about nonprofits—scholar, practitioner, and citizen—will find useful and illuminating."—Peter Dobkin Hall, Program on Non-Profit OrganizationsYale Divinity School"A remarkable book."—Robert Putnam, John F. Kennedy ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Economics of Higher Education in the United States

    by Jordan Hensley, Stanley N. Katz, Bruce A. Kimball, Jeremy B. Luke, Sam Stern, Jamie M. Brown, David C. Hammack ...
    Series series Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press
    In The Economics of Higher Education in the United States, editors Thomas Adam and A. Burcu Bayram have assembled five essays, adapted from the fifty-second annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture Series, that focus on the increasing cost of college—a topic that causes great anxiety among students, parents, faculty, administrators, legislators, and taxpayers. Essays focus on the funding of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • A Versatile American Institution

    The Changing Ideals and Realities of Philanthropic Foundations

    by David C. Hammack, Helmut K. Anheier ...
    America's grantmaking foundations have grown rapidly over the course of recent decades, even in the face of financial and economic crises. Foundations have a great deal of freedom, enjoy widespread legitimacy, and wield considerable influence. In this book, David Hammack and Helmut Anheier follow up their edited volume, American Foundations, with a comprehensive historical account of what American ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

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    The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America

    by Lizabeth Cohen ...
    In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life.Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the ... Read more

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  • Ages of American Capitalism

    A History of the United States

    by Jonathan Levy ...
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  • Race & Economics

    How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?

    by Walter E. Williams ...
    Walter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best interests of minorities. He debunks many common labor market myths and reveals how excessive government regulation and the minimum-wage law have imposed incalculable ... Read more

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  • Mutualism

    Building the Next Economy from the Ground Up

    by Sara Horowitz ...
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  • The Death and Life of American Journalism

    The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again

    by John Nichols, Robert W. McChesney ...
    Daily newspapers are closing across America. Washington bureaus are shuttering; whole areas of the federal government are now operating with no press coverage. International bureaus are going, going, gone.Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power, the lifeblood of American democracy, is not just threatened. It is in meltdown.In The Death and Life of American Journalism, ... Read more

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    How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape

    by Joel Kotkin ...
    In the blink of an eye, vast economic forces have created new types of communities and reinvented old ones. In The New Geography, acclaimed forecaster Joel Kotkin decodes the changes, and provides the first clear road map for where Americans will live and work in the decades to come, and why. He examines the new role of cities in America and takes us into the new American neighborhood. The New ... Read more

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  • Lessons Learned

    Reflections of a University President

    by William G. Bowen ...
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    An insider's account of higher education from a legendary university leaderLessons Learned gives unprecedented access to the university president's office, providing a unique set of reflections on the challenges involved in leading both research universities and liberal arts colleges. In this landmark book, William Bowen, former president of Princeton University and of the Andrew W. Mellon ... Read more

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