Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
AFFLICTING THE COMFORTABLE: JOURNALISM AND POLITICS IN WEST VIRGINIA de THOMAS F. STAFFORD

AFFLICTING THE COMFORTABLE: JOURNALISM AND POLITICS IN WEST VIRGINIA: WEST VIRGINIA & APPALACHIA

Autor THOMAS F. STAFFORD
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 noi 2005
In 1990, the New York Times wrote, "Government corruption was not invented in West Virginia. But there are people who contend that West Virginia officials have done more than their share over the years to develop state-of-the-art techniques in vote theft, contract kickbacks, influence peddling and good old-fashioned bribery, extortion, fraud, tax evasion and outright stealing." While investigating such events as the Invest Right scandal, Thomas Stafford, a former journalist for the Charleston Gazette, would find himself in a very precarious position. As a reporter he felt obligated to tell the whole truth, and he believed in the need to serve the public and those West Virginians who were being abused by a political machine.
In Afflicting the Comfortable, Stafford relates such tales of the responsibility of journalism and politics in coordination with scandals that have unsettled the Mountain State over the past few decades. His probing would take him from the halls of Charleston to the center of our nation's ruling elite. Guided by his senses of duty, right, and fairness, he plunged head first into the misdeeds of West Virginia's politicians. His investigations would be the preface to the downfall of a governor and an adminstration that had robbed the state and the citizens of West Virginia for years.
Citește tot Restrânge

Din seria WEST VIRGINIA & APPALACHIA

  • GOVERNOR WILLIAM GLASSCOCK AND PROGRESSIVE POLITICS IN WEST VIRGINIA
    Preț: 15292 lei
  • SECTIONALISM IN VIRGINIA FROM 1776 TO 1861
    Preț: 20222 lei
  • CLASH OF LOYALTIES: A BORDER COUNTY IN THE CIVIL WAR
    Preț: 23087 lei
  • BRINGING DOWN THE MOUNTAINS: THE IMPACT OF MOUTAINTOP REMOVAL SURFACE COAL MINING ON SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITIES
    Preț: 14007 lei
  • MATEWAN BEFORE THE MASSACRE: "POLITICS, COAL AND THE ROOTS OF CONFLICT IN A WEST VIRGINIA MINING COMMUNITY"
    Preț: 15786 lei
  • CULTURE, CLASS, AND POLITICS IN MODERN APPALACHIA: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF RONALD L. LEWIS
    Preț: 16184 lei
  • AN APPALACHIAN NEW DEAL: WEST VIRGINIA IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION
    Preț: 14055 lei
  • An Appalachian Reawakening: West Virginia and the Perils of the New Machine Age, 1945-1972
    Preț: 14453 lei
  • 11% They'll Cut Off Your Project: A Mingo County Chronicle
    Preț: 37743 lei
  • The Antebellum Kanawha Salt Business and Western Markets
    Preț: 13852 lei
  • The Industrialist and the Mountaineer: The Eastham-Thompson Feud and the Struggle for West Virginia's Timber Frontier
    Preț: 14527 lei
  • TRANSNATIONAL WEST VIRGINIA: "ETHNIC COMMUNITIES AND ECONOMIC CHANGE, 1840-1940"
    Preț: 16442 lei
  • Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster
    Preț: 14324 lei
  • Never Justice, Never Peace: Mother Jones and the Miner Rebellion at Paint and Cabin Creeks
    Preț: 14853 lei
  • Working Class Radicals: The Socialist Party in West Virginia, 1898-1920
    Preț: 14345 lei
  • Memorializing Motherhood: Anna Jarvis and the Struggle for Control of Mother's Day
    Preț: 14352 lei
  • Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922 2nd Edition
    Preț: 14188 lei
  • The Last Great Senator: Robert C. Byrd's Encounters with Eleven U.S. Presidents
    Preț: 15238 lei
  • 11% CULTURE, CLASS, AND POLITICS IN MODERN APPALACHIA: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF RONALD L. LEWIS
    Preț: 41872 lei
  • Wheeling's Polonia: Reconstructing Polish Community in a West Virginia Steel Town
    Preț: 21046 lei
  • A Union for Appalachian Healthcare Workers: The Radical Roots and Hard Fights of Local 1199
    Preț: 18882 lei
  • The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872
    Preț: 18512 lei

Preț: 17533 lei

Nou

Puncte Express: 263
Preț estimativ în valută:
3356€ • 3540$ • 2796£

Carte disponibilă

Livrare economică 12-26 decembrie

 Adaugă în coș

Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781933202044
ISBN-10: 1933202041
Pagini: 331
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: West Virginia University Press
Colecția West Virginia University Press
Seria WEST VIRGINIA & APPALACHIA

Recenzii

"Like a mason building a house brick by brick, Tom Stafford builds his case in great detail, showing a half-century of plundering and incompetence by others given high public trust, including at least one individual whose wrongs may yet end up costing the state as much as a billion dollars." John Olesky, journalist and editor for forty-three years
"As a member of the elite of West Virginia society, with access to the powerful, Stafford offers readers a unique insider's look into the events of his day, at times struggling with the social ostracism he and his family faced because of his reporting." Sharon Hatfield, author Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell

Textul de pe ultima copertă

In 1990, the New York Times wrote, "Government corruption was not invented in West Virginia. But there are people who contend that West Virginia officials have done more than their share over the years to develop state-of-the-art techniques in vote theft, contract kickbacks, influence peddling and good old-fashioned bribery, extortion, fraud, tax evasion and outright stealing." While investigating such events as the Invest Right scandal, Thomas Stafford, a former journalist for the Charleston Gazette, would find himself in a very precarious position. As a reporter he felt obligated to tell the whole truth, and he believed in the need to serve the public and those West Virginians who were being abused by a political machine.
In Afflicting the Comfortable, Stafford relates such tales of the responsibility of journalism and politics in coordination with scandals that have unsettled the Mountain State over the past few decades. His probing would take him from the halls of Charleston to the center of our nation's ruling elite. Guided by his senses of duty, right, and fairness, he plunged head first into the misdeeds of West Virginia's politicians. His investigations would be the preface to the downfall of a governor and an adminstration that had robbed the state and the citizens of West Virginia for years.

Cuprins

Foreword by Ronald L. Lewis
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
  
Part One
1. Depression Politics
2. A New Battlefront
3. Editorial Influence
4. A Byrd's Eye View
5. A Man For Another Season
6. Political Shake-Up
7. "One Brief, Shining Moment"

Part Two
8. He Never Used the Broom
9. "Run It Up the Flagpole"
10. The Ripple Effect
11. Uncharted Territory
12. A Sense of Passion
13. "I've Got a Proposition"
14. The Threat of Libel
15. Striking Gold
16. Going to Press
17. A Promise Curtailed
18. "It Wasn't Any Pleasure"
19. Storm Warnings
20. The Party Faithless

Part Three
21. The Strength of Their Convictions
22. Why?
23. Judicial Remedy
24. Moore Controversies
25. A Lifetime Commitment
26. Third Time Around
27. Three Words Again

Part Four
28. Caperton's Inheritance
29. Once Too Often

Afterword
Index

Descriere

In 1990, the New York Times wrote, "Government corruption was not invented in West Virginia. But there are people who contend that West Virginia officials have done more than their share over the years to develop state-of-the-art techniques in vote theft, contract kickbacks, influence peddling and good old-fashioned bribery, extortion, fraud, tax evasion and outright stealing." While investigating such events as the Invest Right scandal, Thomas Stafford, a former journalist for the Charleston Gazette, would find himself in a very precarious position. As a reporter he felt obligated to tell the whole truth, and he believed in the need to serve the public and those West Virginians who were being abused by a political machine.
In Afflicting the Comfortable, Stafford relates such tales of the responsibility of journalism and politics in coordination with scandals that have unsettled the Mountain State over the past few decades. His probing would take him from the halls of Charleston to the center of our nation's ruling elite. Guided by his senses of duty, right, and fairness, he plunged head first into the misdeeds of West Virginia's politicians. His investigations would be the preface to the downfall of a governor and an adminstration that had robbed the state and the citizens of West Virginia for years.