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Not exactly a poet, a writer, or a philosopher, but a real life observer, Michael Martinez sets out writing on his personal life experiences depicting beautifully the real life events he witnessed and lived in short, precise and enriching poems. The poems touch upon every heartache felt by the author, every interesting personality he met and every tragedy and challenge he came across during his life until now. His inspiration also came from music which comforted him during his hard times. Be it him or her, irrespective or age, the poems of Michael Martinez comes as a soothing balm to every heartache and any other challenging life experiences that anyone may face during his/her lifetime. You may never know, maybe the poems of Michael Martinez may revive your great memories of someone in the past or may relieve you of your day to day worries and loneliness.

A suite of poems that channels the legendary singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens to examine and question mid-twentieth-century conceptions of race and art, identity and desireRagged and raging across the spectrums of cognition, race, and desire, Tarta Americana lyrically envisions forms of survival outside neuronormative perceptions and histories. Against the recent tide of white nationalism in the United States, Tarta Americana finds a rhinestone in Ritchie Valens, the rock and roll legend, surfacing across time and bodies, genders and sounds, displacing the linear unfolding of desire and biography. Valens, the embodiment of corporeal transcendence, guides Martinez as he expresses his own neurodiversity, his struggles and triumphs, interrogating memory, gender, and race, traversing pain in search of compassion and joy. Tarta Americana , tarred and glittering, melodic in its screams, overdrives text and space in chase of American politics that could, at last, harmonize love with redemption.

This is the story of the rise and fall of the Reconstruction-era Klan, focusing especially on Major Merrill and the Seventh Cavalry's efforts to expose the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan to the light of day. číst celé

Exploring the impact of political scandals on American history, this book examines both notorious events like Watergate and the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, as well as lesser-known incidents such as the Daniel Sickles case and the Yazoo land fraud. By analyzing these episodes, it reveals how scandals have shaped the political landscape and influenced the evolution of the American political system over the past two centuries.

Focusing on twelve influential members of Congress, this book explores their significant contributions to American history and the nation's development. It spans from the founding era to the twenty-first century, highlighting the impact of these trailblazers on legislative progress and national identity. Through their stories, the book reveals how individual lawmakers have shaped pivotal moments in the country's evolution.

Focusing on the decision-making styles of exemplary American public servants, this book showcases models of excellence in public service. It highlights their unique approaches and insights, offering valuable lessons for current and aspiring public officials. Through these profiles, readers can explore effective strategies and practices that contribute to outstanding public service and leadership.

This book discusses the many meanings of sustainability, explores the importance of economics in environmental policy-making, and highlights the schools of thought in environmental ethics. It concludes that public administrators can play an important role in ensuring that environmental sustainability is an integral part of American government.

Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry Winner of the National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity "Marvelous, argumentative, and curiosity-provoking" --The New York Times Book Review The poems in J. Michael Martinez's third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body comes to be coded with the trans-historical consequences of an imperial narrative. Engaging beautiful and otherworldly Mexican casta paintings, morbid photographic postcards depicting the bodies of dead Mexicans, the strange journey of the wood and cork leg of General Santa Anna, and Martinez's own family lineage, Museum of the Americas gives accounts of migrant bodies caught beneath, and fashioned under, a racializing aesthetic gaze. Martinez questions how "knowledge" of the body is organized through visual perception of that body, hypothesizing the corporeal as a repository of the human situation, a nexus of culture. Museum of the Americas' poetic revives and repurposes the persecuted ethnic body from the appropriations that render it an art object and, therefore, diposable.

Historian Michael Martinez surveys political sex scandals in American history, from the earliest years of the Republic to today, to explore how these events impacted the politics of the day and the legacy they left for future generations of American leaders.

After years of languishing in the long shadow of «values», its 1960s-era substitute, public discussion and debate about virtues, vices, character, and ethics are occupying center stage once again. This book joins that debate in a way that is both practical and useful to undergraduate and graduate students who are being introduced to the full breadth of public administration in introductory courses, or specialized ones in administrative ethics. Intended as a supplement to major ethics texts, this book will help readers develop a thorough understanding of the principles of ethics so they will come away with a deeper appreciation of the challenges and complexities involved in negotiating the ethical dilemmas facing administrators in a twenty-first century democratic republic.