In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a whole new scale, moving from national to global prominence -- an urban dynamo driven by restless ambition, boundless energy, immigrant dreams, and Wall Street greed. Within the first two decades of the twentieth century, a newly consolidated New York grew exponentially. The city exploded into the air, with skyscrapers jostling for prominence, and dove deep into the bedrock where massive underground networks of subways, water pipes, and electrical conduits sprawled beneath the city to serve a surging population of New Yorkers from all walks of life. New York was transformed in these two decades as the world's second-largest city and now its financial capital, thriving and sustained by the city's seemingly unlimited potential. Wallace's new book matches its predecessor in pure page-turning appeal and takes America's greatest city to new heights.

Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 (The History of NYC Series)

History

Wallace, Mike

Americas

Oxford University Press

To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the globe. In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history, one that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898. It is an epic narrative, a story as vast and as varied as the city it chronicles, and it underscores that the history of New York is the story of our nation. Readers will relive the tumultuous early years of New Amsterdam under the Dutch West India Company, Peter Stuyvesant's despotic regime, Indian wars, slave resistance and revolt, the Revolutionary War and the defeat of Washington's army on Brooklyn Heights, the destructive seven years of British occupation, New York as the nation's first capital, the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, the Erie Canal and the coming of the railroads, the growth of the city as a port and financial center, the infamous draft riots of the Civil War, the great flood of immigrants, the rise of mass entertainment such as vaudeville and Coney Island, the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and the birth of the skyscraper. Here too is a cast of thousands--the rebel Jacob Leisler and the reformer Joanna Bethune; Clement Moore, who saved Greenwich Village from the city's street-grid plan; Herman Melville, who painted disillusioned portraits of city life; and Walt Whitman, who happily celebrated that same life. We meet the rebel Jacob Leisler and the reformer Joanna Bethune; Boss Tweed and his nemesis, cartoonist Thomas Nast; Emma Goldman and Nellie Bly; Jacob Riis and Horace Greeley; police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt; Colonel Waring and his "white angels" (who revolutionized the sanitation department); millionaires John Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, August Belmont, and William Randolph Hearst; and hundreds more who left their mark on this great city. The events and people who crowd these pages guarantee that this is no mere local history. It is in fact a portrait of the heart and soul of America, and a book that will mesmerize everyone interested in the peaks and valleys of American life as found in the greatest city on earth. Gotham is a dazzling read, a fast-paced, brilliant narrative that carries the reader along as it threads hundreds of stories into one great blockbuster of a book.

Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898

Burrows, Edwin G.

Product Description Developing Public Service Leaders examines why and how governments and representative bodies in public service organizations have mounted major interventions over the last two decades to develop senior staff as leaders. A critical explanation is developed of the foundational contribution made by national leadership development interventions in the 2000s to the emergence, proliferation, and normalization of leadership development provision. Through carrying out qualitative research in England, the authors investigate the national leadership development interventions for school education, healthcare, and higher education. Whilst also looking at the contemporary legacy of these interventions within a global scale, examining the growing international movement and comparing interventions across the world. The book looks at new ways to approach leadership development, adopting a novel perspective on leadership as a metaphorical concept and coining the concept of 'leaderism', and exploring how although senior staff may be widely acculturated as leaders, they may not necessarily be committed to acting as government change agents. Leadership development makes a diffuse contribution towards the ongoing neoliberalization of public services.Developing Public Service Leaders is a comprehensive and essential read for a researcher or policymaker striving for an in-depth understanding of the field and its ramifications. About the Author Mike Wallace, Cardiff Business School,Michael Reed, Cardiff Business School,Dermot O'Reilly, Lancaster University Management School,Michael Tomlinson, University of Southampton,Jonathan Morris, Cardiff Business School,Rosemary Deem, Royal HollowayProfessor Mike Wallace is Professor of Education Management and Policy at the School of Education and School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, and Professor of Public Management, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. He served as Strategic Adviser for Researcher Development and Director of the Researcher Development Initiative for the Economic and Social Research Council and his main interest lies in the management of change in public services, spanning policy development and implementation, complex and programmatic change, public service reform, planning for change, large-scale reorganization, and leadership development interventions.Professor Michael Reed is Professor of Organizational Analysis at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. One of the founding editors of the organization theory journal, Organization, Reed is a Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences and Learned Society of Wales. His major research interests focus on changing relationship between political elites, occupational experts, and organizational control regimes within Anglo-American political economies.Dr Dermot O'Reilly is a Senior Lecturer in Management Learning and Leadership, Lancaster University and previously Senior Research Officer for the research project 'Developing Public Service Leaders as Change Agents in the Public Services', funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and based at Cardiff Business School.Dr Michael Tomlinson is Associate Professor of Education and Work at Southampton Education School, University of Southampton. He was previously a lecturer at Keele University in the School of Public Policy and prior to that a Research Officer on the research project 'Developing Leaders as Change Agents in the Public Services' funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and based at Cardiff Business School. His main research interests include sociological and political economic aspects of higher and post-compulsory education, focusing on higher education policy and its relationship to employability, labour markets, marketisation, graduate and academic identity.Professor Jonathan Morris is Professor of Organizational Analysis at Cardiff University's Business School. He was previously Research Associate, Lecturer and Seni

Developing Public Service Leaders: Elite orchestration, change agency, leaderism, and neoliberalization

Business & Money

Morris, Jonathan

Tomlinson, Michael

Deem, Rosemary

Reed,Michael

O'Reilly, Dermot

Industries

This book looks at multi-racial primary schools, addressing the tension between planning based on annual cycles for long-term coherence versus continual, incremental planning for short-term flexibility. Amongst other things, the book: describes how staff and governors in multi-racial primary schools manage the process of planning to implement multiple innovations; discusses the strategies adopted by such schools and the implications of these strategies for schools in other settings; and develops an approach to planning which draws upon a "flexible planning" model in order to contribute to the international debate on school improvement.

Planning for Change in Turbulent Times: The Case for Multiracial Primary Schools (School Development)

McMahon, Agnes

Continuum Intl Pub Group

Planning for Change in Turbulent Times: The Case for Multi-Racial Primary Schools (School Development Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

In Heat &amp; Light, a legendary journalist and a journalism professor join forces to offer a one-of-a-kind guide for our next generation of great journalists. Drawing on the authors' decades of experience at the top of the field and inspired directly by beginners’ most frequently asked questions, Heat &amp; Light offers invaluable advice on such topics as: · balancing drama and information (‘heat’ vs. ‘light’) · generating and evaluating story ideas · the secrets to crafting good ledes · creating strong packages for the internet, tv, and radio · the specific requirements of writing for print and broadcast · the art of the interview Along the way, the authors share countless anecdotes from their own storied careers—and discuss larger questions such as the rapidly growing role of digital media and what it means for today’s aspiring journalists. Includes an extensive "reporter’s toolbox" of checklists, techniques, and resources

Heat and Light: Advice for the Next Generation of Journalists

Knobel, Beth

Job Hunting & Careers

Three Rivers Press

LARGE PRINT EDITION. 2005 Hyperion (Doubleday Large Print/Random House). Autobio. of Mike Wallace's more than a half-century as journalist and his lead position on award-winning 60 Minutes. Includes 82-minute DVD.

Between You and Me (Random House Large Print)

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Random House, Large Print

Each year more than 17 million Americans suffer from a depressive illness, yet few suffer in solitude. How You Can Survive When They're Depressed explores depression from the perspective of those who are closest to the sufferers of this prevalent disorder--spouses, parents, children, and lovers--and gives the successful coping strategies of many people who live with a clinical depressive or manic-depressive and often suffer in silence, believing their own problems have no claim to attention. Depression fallout is the emotional toll on the depressive's family and close friends who are unaware of their own stressful reactions and needs. Sheffield outlines the five stages of depression fallout: confusion, self-doubt, demoralization, anger, and finally, the desire to escape. Many people will find relief in the knowledge that their self-blame, guilt, sadness, and resentment are a natural result of living with a depressed person. Sheffield brings together many real-life examples from the pioneering support group she attends at Beth Israel Medical Center of how people with depression fallout have learned to cope. From setting boundaries to maintaining an outside social life, she gives practical tactics for handling the challenges and emotional stresses on a day-to-day basis.

How You Can Survive When They're Depressed: Living and Coping with Depression Fallout

Sheffield, Anne

Klein, Donald F.

Parenting & Relationships

Harmony

The senior correspondent of CBS's popular "60 Minutes," known for his no-holds-barred interviews, offers background information on his most famous interviews and explains how and why he adopted his controversial style

Close Encounters: Mike Wallace's Own Story

Gates, Gary Paul

William Morrow & Co.

Educational Leadership: Ambiguity, Professionals and Managerialism

This book explores the limits to rational management. The authors develop the idea of organizational irony as a central concept for analyzing and explaining management activity in a managerialist environment. Drawing on international research as well as their own extensive experience in educational organizations, the authors show that effectiveness is not necessarily the result of over-rationalistic approaches to educational management. Focusing on school leadership and management, authors Eric Hoyle and Mike Wallace suggest that major reforms have had limited success because the changes introduced have diverted school staff from their core task of promoting student learning. The result is dissatisfaction, frustration, and stress. The authors use the ironic perspective to show how practitioners respond by mediating the reforms.

Education & Teaching

Hoyle, Eric

Schools & Teaching

Sage Publications Ltd.

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