Resultaten voor 'diana evans'

1. Dorothy West

The Wedding

In The Wedding, West brilliantly portrays the ferocity of class, race, and gender distinctions within family, groups, and generations - Entertainment Weekly West published her second novel, The Wedding (1995), at the age of 87. It received an ecstatic reaction ... Set on the Vineyard on a single summer weekend, The Wedding is narrated by an irresistibly droll omniscient voice that veers across centuries to trace the knotty, reverberating heritage of an affluent African American family ... timelessly cinematic, with painterly visual descriptions and pitch-perfect dialogue that ranges across class, region, race, age, and gender - PAris Review The tranquility of a late summer weekend in 1953 is shattered by a tragic accident in this spare, affecting novel by one of the last surviving members of the Harlem Renaissance ... Through the ancestral histories of the Coles family, West subtly reveals the ways in which color can burden and codify behavior. The author makes her points with a delicate hand, maneuvering with confidence and ease through a sometimes incendiary subject ... a triumph. - Publisher's Weekly You have only to read the first page to know that you are in the hands of a writer, pure and simple. At the end, it's as though we've been invited not so much to a wedding as to a full-scale opera, only to find that one great artist is belting out all the parts. She brings down the house - New York Times West is a wonderful storyteller, painting vivid and memorable scenes of the life and plight of African Americans from slavery to the fifties. The Wedding is an engrossing tale - USA Today

1. Diana Evans

26a

Identical twins, Georgia and Bessi, live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue. It is a place of beanbags, nectarines and secrets, and visitors must always knock before entering. Forced to create their own identities, the Hunter children build a separate universe. It is when the reality comes knocking that the fantasies of childhood start to give way.

1. Mark N. Franklin

Voter Turnout and the Dynamics of Electoral Competition in Established Democracies since 1945

"This remarkable book repays attention from scholars and policymakers alike. It builds on two or more generations of careful scholarship, but literally takes that work to another level--in this case, another level of analysis." - Richard Johnston, University of Pennsylvania

1. Diana Evans

Greasing the Wheels

This title examines pork barrel projects and their relation to broad-based national legislation.

Distributive Politics in Developing Countries

This book explores the dynamics of distributive politics in developing democracies via a series of case studies of an emerging spending mechanism—constituency development funds (CDFs). It is germane to students of legislative studies, international development, comparative politics, and democratization.

The Politics of New Immigrant Destinations

Stefanie Chambers is Charles A. Dana Research Associate Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She is the author of Mayors and Schools: Minority Voices and Democratic Tensions in Urban Education and Somalis in Twin Cities and Columbus: Immigrant Incorporation in New Destinations (both Temple).Diana Evans is a Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She is the author of Greasing the Wheels: Using Pork Barrel Projects to Build Majority Coalitions in Congress.Anthony M. Messina is John R. Reitemeyer Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is the author of Race and Party Competition in Britain and The LogicsandPolitics of Post-WWII Migration to Western Europe and the editor or co-editor of five volumes.Abigail Fisher Williamson is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Law at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.