Phoenix Rising: The Rise and Fall of the American RepublicPhoenix Rising, 2008 - 600 pages In an age when the supply of gasoline to feed this modern American society has become both more expensive and more scarce questions are being pondered. Inquires like, How can a modern society scale back its dependence on gasoline as a motive source?' Are there genuine alternative power sources?' Are they the answer to a growing crisis?' Recent announcements of hybrids like those from Honda, Toyota, and Ford have really brought attention to this issue. Hybrids that use both gasoline engines and electric motors. Really, though, alternative power sources have been around for as long as the automobile has been. The battle between and among the steam car, the electric and the gas car was fought out in the first couple of decades of the twentieth century. This book explores the ins and outs of that battle. A struggle from which the gasoline car emerged completely victorious. To such an extent that steam cars and electric cars virtually disappeared from the scene for many decades. We will look over all three alternatives, exploring their advantages and disadvantages. We will also look over the obstacles to the steamers and the electrics. Barriers that still exist to a certain extent. Handicaps that caused their disappearance in the first place. |
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... Republican voters. In Kansas, over 2000 murders were committed in connection with their election. In Georgia, the ... Republicans' pro- gram for reconstruction. Amid this controversy Grant resigned his position as the Secretary of ...
... Republicans also won a majority in Congress. Many Northerners were united in their disgust of Klan violence. This lent their support to the Fifteenth Amendment, which gave the vote to black men in every state.14 But as I have already ...
... Republican National Com- mittee arranged transportation to Canton for thousands of contributors from across the country, transporting over 20,000 people in one day in September alone.3 Hanna also raised huge sums of money from Wall ...
... interpret the Constitution as a living docu- ment . That meant that it could grow beyond its stated and implied limitations that restricted its power . So it was a Republican , Teddy Roosevelt 80 Chapter 8 – The Grand Illusion.
... Republican , Teddy Roosevelt , who became the first president to appoint openly activist judges . It was Roosevelt appointee Oliver Wendell Holmes who sought to undermine the 700 - year traditions of common law , declaring that law had ...