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American Foundations: Roles and Contributions

Helmut K. Anheier, David C. Hammack - Political Science - 2010 - 471 pages
Foundations play an essential part in the philanthropic activity that defines so much of American life. No other nation provides its foundations with so much autonomy and ...
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Money to Burn: Great American Foundations and Their Money

Horace Coon - Social Science - 406 pages
Originally published in 1938, this is a classic muckraking account of the role of philanthropic foundations. Horace Coon's journalistic indictment of the state of philanthropy ...
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Foundations for Social Change: Critical Perspectives on Philanthropy and ...

Deborah McCarthy Auriffeille, Daniel Faber - Social Science - 2005 - 323 pages
This multi-disciplinary collection blends broad overviews and case studies as well as different theoretical perspectives in a critique of the relationship between United States ...
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American Foundations: An Investigative History

Mark Dowie - History - 2002 - 368 pages
In American Foundations, Mark Dowie argues that organized philanthropy is on the verge of an evolutionary shift that will transform America's nearly 50,000 foundations from ...
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Changing the Powers that be: How the Left Can Stop Losing and Win

G. William Domhoff - Political Science - 2003 - 164 pages
In this controvestional volume, a leading writer on poltical power charts a new stratey for the American left. Equality, fairness, and opportunity -- these themes which ...
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Lawyers of the Right: Professionalizing the Conservative Coalition

Ann Southworth - Political Science - 2009 - 272 pages
A timely and multifaceted portrait of the lawyers who serve the diverse constituencies of the conservative movement, Lawyers of the Right explains what unites and divides ...
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Understanding the Tea Party Movement

Professor David S Meyer, Professor Nella Van Dyke - Social Science - 2014 - 205 pages
Hailing themselves as heirs to the American Revolution, the Tea Party movement staged tax day protests in over 750 US cities in April 2009, quickly establishing a large and ...
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