“She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far beyond the credit she has been given in the history of the country.”—Alfreda M. Duster Ida B. Wells is an American icon of truth telling. Born to slaves, she was a pioneer of investigative journalism, a crusader against lynching, and a tireless advocate for suffrage, both for women and for African Americans. She co-founded the NAACP, started the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, and was a leader in the early civil rights movement, working alongside W. E. B. Du Bois, Madam C. J. Walker, Mary Church Terrell, Frederick Douglass, and Susan B. Anthony. This engaging memoir, originally published 1970, relates Wells’s private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice. This updated edition includes a new foreword by Eve L. Ewing, new images, and a new afterword by Ida B. Wells’s great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster.

Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917 (Volume 1999) (American Politics and Political Economy Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Sanders, Elizabeth

Community & Culture

University of Chicago Press

Roots of Reform offers a sweeping revision of our understanding of the rise of the regulatory state in the late nineteenth century. Sanders argues that politically mobilized farmers were the driving force behind most of the legislation that increased national control over private economic power. She demonstrates that farmers from the South, Midwest, and West reached out to the urban laborers who shared their class position and their principal antagonist—northeastern monopolistic industrial and financial capital—despite weak electoral support from organized labor.Based on new evidence from legislative records and other sources, Sanders shows that this tenuous alliance of "producers versus plutocrats" shaped early regulatory legislation, remained powerful through the populist and progressive eras, and developed a characteristic method of democratic state expansion with continued relevance for subsequent reform movements. Roots of Reform is essential reading for anyone interested in this crucial period of American political development.

Business & Money

Economics

Roots of Reform offers a sweeping revision of our understanding of the rise of the regulatory state in the late nineteenth century. Sanders argues that politically mobilized farmers were the driving force behind most of the legislation that increased national control over private economic power. She demonstrates that farmers from the South, Midwest, and West reached out to the urban laborers who shared their class position and their principal antagonist—northeastern monopolistic industrial and financial capital—despite weak electoral support from organized labor. Based on new evidence from legislative records and other sources, Sanders shows that this tenuous alliance of "producers versus plutocrats" shaped early regulatory legislation, remained powerful through the populist and progressive eras, and developed a characteristic method of democratic state expansion with continued relevance for subsequent reform movements. Roots of Reform is essential reading for anyone interested in this crucial period of American political development.

In Fabled Service, Betsy Sanders shares her secrets for creating legendary customer service through dedicated leadership.The first edition sold over 75,000 copies in cloth and paperback since it's original publication in 1994. In this revision, Sanders will draw not only on her previous experience as Nordstrom vice president and general manager, but on her more recent experience consuklting to companies worldwide (such as Hitachi and Harrods) as well as her experience serving on the boards of WalMart, Wolverine Worldwide (parent company of Hushpuppies), Walpoint( parent company of Blue Cross), Advantica (parent company of Denny's) and Washington Mutual. The revision will include new stories that lead off each chapter from service leaders around the world that will illustrate the message of that chapter--fabled service is a way of life, is defined by the customer, is everyone's job, etc.) We will update the sidebars and illustrations which are so much a part of what has made this book successful and update the interior design, while keeping the short length (154 pages).

Fabled Service: Ordinary Acts, Extraordinary Outcomes

Management & Leadership

Jossey-Bass

Working the twelve-step recovery program will result in your transformation. Are you ready to experience dramatic improvement in every area of your life?Gambling Recovery makes a strong case for working the GA recovery steps, whether you are a newcomer treasuring a few weeks of abstinence, or a Gamblers Anonymous veteran with years in the fellowship. Filled with practical advice and exercises, this book will help you incorporate the steps into your everyday life.Pursue the better life that twelve-step recovery promises!

Gambling Recovery: Working the Gamblers Anonymous Recovery Program

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Addiction & Recovery

Wheatmark

Christmas Eve in Vacherie, Louisiana, finds the banks of the Mississippi alive with fire. Walter is consumed with planning the perfect bonfire—the one that will finally beat his brother's blaze and extinguish the lingering melancholy from his father's death. As Walter obsesses over wood, kindling, and structure, his family life teeters on the brink of collapse.Elizabeth Sanders' fiction has appeared in the Arkansas Review, the International Feminist Journal of Politics, and the anthology Something in the Water. She is from New Orleans and lives in New York with her husband and daughter. This is her first novel.

The Last Light

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Broken Levee Books

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Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917 (Volume 1999) (American Politics and Political Economy Series)

Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917 (Volume 1999) (American Politics and Political Economy Series)

Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917 (Volume 1999) (American Politics and Political Economy Series)

Fabled Service: Ordinary Acts, Extraordinary Outcomes

Gambling Recovery: Working the Gamblers Anonymous Recovery Program

The Last Light