John Le Carre:The Looking Glass War
- gebunden oder broschiert 2004, ISBN: 9780698102187
London: Union of Democratic Control, 1933. 64pp, original wrappers with front cover design by McKnight Kauffer. Very slightly soiled to edges, lower cover creased, internally quite bright… Mehr…
London: Union of Democratic Control, 1933. 64pp, original wrappers with front cover design by McKnight Kauffer. Very slightly soiled to edges, lower cover creased, internally quite bright and clean. Illustrated in 'E. McKnight Kauffer - Design', page 75. The third impression from November 1933. Reprint. Paper Covers. Good. Illus. by McKnight Kauffer, E.. 8vo. Pamphlet., Union of Democratic Control, 1933, Berkeley. 2004. September 2004. University Of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good In Dustjacket. ISBN:0520242866. 455 pages. hardcover. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In this searing indictment of current administration policy, Charles Tiefer, a distinguished scholar of national legal affairs and former solicitor of the House of Representatives, argues that President George W. Bush methodically manipulates the law to promote right-wing causes. The beneficiaries of these machinations range from frontline pro-weapon and anti-women’s rights groups to major industries that profit from lax environmental standards and military intervention in resource-rich regions. Accessibly written, legally rigorous, and meticulously documented, Veering Right demonstrates how the administration’s already-ample arsenal for accomplishing ideological goals was expanded with weapons such as Attorney General John Ashcroft’s social crusades and the polarizing 2004 election campaign. Tiefer lays out a compelling case for how the administration consistently erects barriers to media and congressional oversight that might expose covert motivations to public scrutiny. With an eye on the future, the White House is building a durable and potentially dominant machine for pursuing ideological goals by awarding lifetime judgeships and by exchanging favors for campaign funding. This book presents eye-opening evidence that ultra-conservatives could achieve previously unimaginable successes during a second Bush term. As a former Solicitor of the House of Representatives, Tiefer possesses a wealth of insight gleaned from decades of no-holds-barred investigations and judicial struggles. His wide-ranging perspective takes into account cultural changes, constitutional issues, partisan and electoral developments, and political personalities. The most exhaustive analysis to date of the Bush administration’s real agenda, this book provides a rare insider’s view of the strategic, devious, and potentially overpowering ways that presidents make ideological use of the law. Veering Right Documents How - President Bush’s secrecy and deception undermined the democratic process by misleading Congress and the public about international and domestic matters ranging from doctored Iraq weapons intelligence to covered-up drugmaker subsidies paid for by seniors; Bush’s first term lays the groundwork for even more extreme right wing policies if he is re-elected. This agenda includes tilting the nation’s tax structure against the middle class in Democratic states, weakening traditional Medicare by concentrating rising costs on poorer and sicker seniors, and exporting jobs via the trade fast track; John Ashcroft used religiosity and race-baiting to build his political career and, after 9/11, blocked questioning of his abuses–ranging from concealed undermining of the Bill of Rights to promoting the intolerance of the religious right–by labeling it as suspicious and even treasonous; Bush turned the public’s reaction after 9/11 away from the logical Saudi suspects and against Iraq in a spectacular double-play to push his agenda in the world’s oil patch; Secretary of the Interior Gail Norton and her crew of lawyer-lobbyists ran the public’s resources and its pollution controls like a candy store for pariah industries; Bush’s domestic legal gambits around big money paid off in 2004 with a historical gross campaign war chest as a quid pro quo for favors rendered; The Bush Administration dismantled international legal regimes ranging from arms control and women’s rights to global climate control and international tobacco regulation; Bush’s unilateralist alienation of potential support abroad hobbled both the Iraq occupation and the effort against terrorism. inventory #35241 ISBN: 0520242866., London England: William Heinemann Ltd., 1965. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. London England: William Heinemann Ltd., 1965. Good/No Jacket. London England: William Heinemann Ltd., 1965. Good/No Jacket. Description: John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim. THE LOOKING GLASS WAR Once upon a time the distinction had been clear: the Circus handled all things political while the Department dealt with matters military. But over the years, power shifted and the Circus elbowed the Department out. Now, suddenly, the Department has a job on its hands. Evidence suggests Soviet missiles are being positioned close to the German border. Vital film is missing and a courier is dead. Lacking active agents, but possessed of an outdated mandate to proceed, the Department has to find an old hand to prove its mettle. Fred Leiser, German-speaking Pole turned Englishman--once a qualified radio operator, now involved in the motor trade--must be called back to the colors and sent East.... Special Attributes: first edition Snow covered the airfield. It had come from the north, in the mist, driven by the night wind, smelling of the sea. There it would stay all Winter, threadbare on the grey earth, an icy, sharp dust; not thawing and freezing, but static like a year without seasons. The changing mist, like the smoke of war, would hang over it, swallow up now a hangar, now the radar hut, now the machines; release them piece by piece, drained of colour, black carrion on a white desert. It was a scene of no depth, no recession and no shadows. The land was one with the sky; figures and buildings locked in the cold like bodies in an ice£loe. Beyond the airfield there was nothing; uo house, no hill, no road; not even a fence, a tree; only the sky pressing on the dunes, the running fog that lifted on the muddy Baltic shore. Somewhere inland were the mountains. A group of children in school caps had gathered at the long observation window, chattering in German. Some wore ski clothes. Taylor gazed dully past them, holding a glass in his gloved hand. A boy turned round and stared at him, blushed and whispered to the other children. They fell silent. He looked at his watch, making a wide arc with his arm, partly to free the sleeve of his overcoat and partly because it was his style; a military man, he wished you to say, decent regiment, decent club, knocked around in the war. Ten to four. The plane was an hour late. They would have to announce the reason soon over the loudspeaker. He wondered what they would say: delayed by fog, perhaps; delayed take-off. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. <br/><br/> <br/><br/>, William Heinemann Ltd., 1965<
