Jefferson Owen (19 results)

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. x, 130p., first printing, very good in a like dj. Argues for a resettlement policy to destroy the culture of poverty in urban ghettos.

Condition: As New. Like New condition. Like New dust jacket. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 15p., wrps. 7th Adlith Brown Memorial Lecture (1991).

Condition: New.

Hardback. Condition: New. After decades of hand-wringing and well-intentioned efforts to improve inner cities, ghettos remain places of degrading poverty with few jobs, much crime, failing schools, and dilapidated housing. Stepping around fruitless arguments over whether or not ghettos are dysfunctional communities that exacerbate poverty, and beyond modest proposals to ameliorate their problems, one of America's leading experts on civil rights gives us a stunning but commonsensical solution: give residents the means to leave. Inner cities, writes Owen Fiss, are structures of subordination. The only way to end the poverty they transmit across generations is to help people move out of them--and into neighborhoods with higher employment rates and decent schools. Based on programs tried successfully in Chicago and elsewhere, Fiss's proposal is for a provocative national policy initiative that would give inner-city residents rent vouchers so they can move to better neighborhoods. This would end at last the informal segregation, by race and income, of our metropolitan regions.Given the government's role in creating and maintaining segregation, Fiss argues, justice demands no less than such sweeping federal action. To sample the heated controversy that Fiss's ideas will ignite, the book includes ten responses from scholars, journalists, and practicing lawyers. Some endorse Fiss's proposal in general terms but take issue with particulars. Others concur with his diagnosis of the problem but argue that his policy response is wrongheaded. Still others accuse Fiss of underestimating the internal strength of inner-city communities as well as the hostility of white suburbs. Fiss's bold views should set off a debate that will help shape urban social policy into the foreseeable future. It is indispensable reading for anyone interested in social justice, domestic policy, or the fate of our cities.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. as pictured First Edition Very good condition soft cover, foldout charts intact, gently read clean, 302 pages «.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 144 pages. 8.50x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardback. Condition: New. After decades of hand-wringing and well-intentioned efforts to improve inner cities, ghettos remain places of degrading poverty with few jobs, much crime, failing schools, and dilapidated housing. Stepping around fruitless arguments over whether or not ghettos are dysfunctional communities that exacerbate poverty, and beyond modest proposals to ameliorate their problems, one of America's leading experts on civil rights gives us a stunning but commonsensical solution: give residents the means to leave. Inner cities, writes Owen Fiss, are structures of subordination. The only way to end the poverty they transmit across generations is to help people move out of them--and into neighborhoods with higher employment rates and decent schools. Based on programs tried successfully in Chicago and elsewhere, Fiss's proposal is for a provocative national policy initiative that would give inner-city residents rent vouchers so they can move to better neighborhoods. This would end at last the informal segregation, by race and income, of our metropolitan regions.Given the government's role in creating and maintaining segregation, Fiss argues, justice demands no less than such sweeping federal action. To sample the heated controversy that Fiss's ideas will ignite, the book includes ten responses from scholars, journalists, and practicing lawyers. Some endorse Fiss's proposal in general terms but take issue with particulars. Others concur with his diagnosis of the problem but argue that his policy response is wrongheaded. Still others accuse Fiss of underestimating the internal strength of inner-city communities as well as the hostility of white suburbs. Fiss's bold views should set off a debate that will help shape urban social policy into the foreseeable future. It is indispensable reading for anyone interested in social justice, domestic policy, or the fate of our cities.…

Gebunden. Condition: New. Describes inner cities as structures of subordination. Given the government s role in creating and maintaining segregation, this work argues, justice demands no less than the sweeping federal action. It includes ten responses from scholars, journalists, and.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - After decades of hand-wringing and well-intentioned efforts to improve inner cities, ghettos remain places of degrading poverty with few jobs, much crime, failing schools, and dilapidated housing. Stepping around fruitless arguments over whether or not ghettos are dysfunctional communities that exacerbate poverty, and beyond modest proposals to ameliorate their problems, one of America's leading experts on civil rights gives us a stunning but commonsensical solution: give residents the means to leave. Inner cities, writes Owen Fiss, are structures of subordination. The only way to end the poverty they transmit across generations is to help people move out of them--and into neighborhoods with higher employment rates and decent schools. Based on programs tried successfully in Chicago and elsewhere, Fiss's proposal is for a provocative national policy initiative that would give inner-city residents rent vouchers so they can move to better neighborhoods. This would end at last the informal segregation, by race and income, of our metropolitan regions. Given the government's role in creating and maintaining segregation, Fiss argues, justice demands no less than such sweeping federal action. To sample the heated controversy that Fiss's ideas will ignite, the book includes ten responses from scholars, journalists, and practicing lawyers. Some endorse Fiss's proposal in general terms but take issue with particulars. Others concur with his diagnosis of the problem but argue that his policy response is wrongheaded. Still others accuse Fiss of underestimating the internal strength of inner-city communities as well as the hostility of white suburbs. Fiss's bold views should set off a debate that will help shape urban social policy into the foreseeable future. It is indispensable reading for anyone interested in social justice, domestic policy, or the fate of our cities.…

First edition (per matching dates on title and copyright leaves). [2], i-x, 1-330, [18] pages. Hardcover: H 19.5cm x L 12.75cm. Original dark green cloth rubbed with some staining; board corners worn; rear board detached but retaining rear free endpaper and last advertising leaf by strip of relatively modern binding tape; spine's surface cloth chipped at ends with additional tear at heel; spine separated along rear joint but still attached at front joint; spine's gilt lettering still reasonably bright but not vibrant. Toning to text block edges. Antebellum bookseller ticket "Sold by | Thos. J. Starke, | No. 53 Main Street, | Opposite St. Charles Hotel, | Richmond, Va." affixed at front pastedown's top left (antebellum Richmond bookseller tickets are uncommon); three-line antiquarian ink ownership inscription "Owen B. Hill MD | Richmond | Va" on front free endpaper; old four leaf clover laid-in between pages 184-185; occasional pencil marks at text margins; pages 313-314 with near leaf long tear towards gutter margin affecting text. Features frontispiece with guard sheet plus three b/w plates all on unpaged leaves (opposite pages 43, 98, and 129). Includes single publisher's advertising leaf preceding frontis and a section of nine unnumbered leaves (i.e. 18 pages) of publisher's advertisements at rear. Wright Howes only calls for six advertising pages so this copy may be a second state of the first edition. Several quires slightly pulled but otherwise text block (save for aforementioned defects) is reasonably firm. Just a good antiquarian copy in need of spine repair and re-stitching. Lawyer Joseph Glover Baldwin (1815-1864) relays his humorous stories and impressions, mostly autobiographical but some fictional elements too, of life during the speculative southern land rush in Alabama and Mississippi prior to the 1837 financial crash. Baldwin moved to California in the late Gold Rush years and served on the Supreme Court of California from 1858 to 1862. In an essay regarding Baldwin on pages 18-19 of LIVES OF MISSISSIPPI AUTHORS, 1817-1967 (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1981) James D. Wilson describes Baldwin's book as a "literary attempt to extol the glories of the region's past and to warn of its impending doom . . . cast in the form of sketches, many dealing with the legal profession" and cites W.D. Howe's statement (from the 1918 edition of CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE) that FLUSH TIMES is "perhaps the most significant volume of humor by a Southerner before the Civil War." Bibliographer Thomas Clark summarized FLUSH TIMES as a "burlesque description of pioneer life in Alabama and Mississippi as it appeared to a young lawyer who had recently arrived from Virginia." {Bibliographical references: Wright Howes "U.S.IANA" B-62, Joseph Sabin 2898, Streeter 1564, and Clark "Travels in the Old South" 124.} Bookseller Thomas Jefferson Starke and the book's likely original owner Dr. Owen Baylor Hill (who evidently served as Confederate War Department acting assistant surgeon in charge of prisons) are both buried in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery. Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller.…

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 52. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1955 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 52.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. After decades of hand-wringing and well-intentioned efforts to improve inner cities, ghettos remain places of degrading poverty with few jobs, much crime, failing schools, and dilapidated housing. Stepping around fruitless arguments over whether or not ghettos are dysfunctional communities that exacerbate poverty, and beyond modest proposals to ameliorate their problems, one of America's leading experts on civil rights gives us a stunning but commonsensical solution: give residents the means to leave. Inner cities, writes Owen Fiss, are structures of subordination. The only way to end the poverty they transmit across generations is to help people move out of them--and into neighborhoods with higher employment rates and decent schools. Based on programs tried successfully in Chicago and elsewhere, Fiss's proposal is for a provocative national policy initiative that would give inner-city residents rent vouchers so they can move to better neighborhoods. This would end at last the informal segregation, by race and income, of our metropolitan regions.Given the government's role in creating and maintaining segregation, Fiss argues, justice demands no less than such sweeping federal action. To sample the heated controversy that Fiss's ideas will ignite, the book includes ten responses from scholars, journalists, and practicing lawyers. Some endorse Fiss's proposal in general terms but take issue with particulars. Others concur with his diagnosis of the problem but argue that his policy response is wrongheaded. Still others accuse Fiss of underestimating the internal strength of inner-city communities as well as the hostility of white suburbs. Fiss's bold views should set off a debate that will help shape urban social policy into the foreseeable future. It is indispensable reading for anyone interested in social justice, domestic policy, or the fate of our cities. Describes inner cities as structures of subordination. Given the government's role in creating and maintaining segregation, this work argues, justice demands no less than the sweeping federal action. It includes ten responses from scholars, journalists, and practicing lawyers. It is aimed at those interested in social justice, and domestic policy. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…