Politics and Religion in the White SouthGlenn Feldman University Press of Kentucky, 30/09/2005 - 386 páginas While serving as a crew chief aboard a U.S. Air Force Rescue helicopter, Airman First Class William A. Robinson was shot down and captured in Ha Tinh Province, North Vietnam, on September 20, 1965. After a brief stint at the "Hanoi Hilton," Robinson endured 2,703 days in multiple North Vietnamese prison camps, including the notorious Briarpatch and various compounds at Cu Loc, known by the inmates as the Zoo. No enlisted man in American military history has been held as a prisoner of war longer than Robinson. For seven and a half years, he faced daily privations and endured the full range of North Vietnam's torture program. In The Longest Rescue: The Life and Legacy of Vietnam POW William A. Robinson, Glenn Robins tells Robinson's story using an array of sources, including declassified U.S. military documents, translated Vietnamese documents, and interviews from the National Prisoner of War Museum. Unlike many other POW accounts, this comprehensive biography explores Robinson's life before and after his capture, particularly his estranged relationship with his father, enabling a better understanding of the difficult transition POWs face upon returning home and the toll exacted on their families. Robins's powerful narrative not only demonstrates how Robinson and his fellow prisoners embodied the dedication and sacrifice of America's enlisted men but also explores their place in history and memory. |
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That Which God Hath Put Asunder White Baptists Black Aliens and the Southern Social Order 1890 1920 | 11 |
Factionalism and Ethnic Politics in Atlanta German Jews from the Civil War through the Progressive Era | 35 |
Home and Hearth Women the Klan Conservative Religion and Traditional Family Values | 57 |
Religion Race and the Right in the South 19451990 | 101 |
City Mothers Dorothy Tilly Georgia Methodist Women and Black Civil Rights | 125 |
Billy Graham Civil Rights and the Changing Postwar South | 157 |
Southern Baptist Clergy the Christian Right and Political Activism in the South | 187 |
The Religious Right and Electoral Politics in the South | 215 |
Donald Wildmon the American Family Association and the Theology of Media Activism | 231 |
The Christian Right in Virginia Politics | 255 |
The Mercedes and the Pine Tree Modernism and Traditionalism in Alabama | 271 |
The Status Quo Society the Rope of Religion and the New Racism | 287 |
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Contributors | 363 |
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The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion James A Beckford,Jay Demerath Pré-visualização limitada - 2007 |