George W Liebmann: 4 books
Neighborhood Futures
Citizen Rights and Local Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Two conflicting developments have recently characterized civic life in the United States. The first, the centralization of formal agencies of government, too often leads to diminishing political liberties and tyranny. The second, which is characterized by a greater amount of civic participation and...
The Last American Diplomat
John D Negroponte and the Changing Face of US Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Can John D. Negroponte be described as 'The Last American Diplomat'? In a career spanning 50 years of unprecedented American global power, he was the last of a dying breed of patrician diplomats - devoted to public service, a self-effacing and ultimate insider, whose prime duty was to advise, guide...
America's Political Inventors
The Lost Art of Legislation
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Recent American political developments, including the election of Donald Trump, reveal profound disquiet with the highly centralized political regime based on discretionary allocation of funds and powers to interest groups that has developed since the creation of emergency institutions after America's...
The Fall of the House of Speyer
The Story of a Banking Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German descent, is surprisingly little known today, yet at the turn of the twentieth century, Speyer was the third largest investment banking firm in the United States, behind only Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb. It...