LATINO COLLEGE PRESIDENTS: IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Editors: Ruben O. Martinez, David Leon
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
ISBN-13: 978-1783501427
This volume is a collection of autobiographical-professional essays by leading Latino and Latina presidents of colleges and universities across the country. Each has written a chapter based on their personal education and professional lives. The presidents divide their essays into three sections: 1) Surviving the educational pipeline to obtain an advanced degree; 2) Moving up the faculty/administrative ladders, in which they cite challenges they experienced giving numerous examples; 3) Advice for up-and-coming administrators, in which they describe numerous projects they designed and implemented, often reflecting their parents’ values and impact on their long careers.
LATINO PROFESSIONALS IN AMERICA: TESTIMONIOS OF POLICY, PERSEVERANCE, AND SUCCESS
Author: Maria Chavez
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0367203191
In Latino Professionals in America, Maria Chávez combines rich qualitative interviews, auto-ethnographic accounts, and policy analysis to explore the converging oppressions that make it difficult for Latinos to become professionals and to envision themselves as successful in those professions. Recounting her own story, Chávez interviews 31 Latino professionals from across the nation in a variety of occupations and careers, contextualizing their experiences amid family struggles and ongoing racism in the United States. The experiences of these Latino professionals and the author’s analysis provide a blueprint for what works.
LATINO TALENT: EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES TO RECRUIT, RETAIN AND DEVELOP HISPANIC PROFESSIONALS
Author: Robert Rodriguez
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN-13: 978-0470125236
By 2050, Latinos will make up one-quarter of the U.S. population and nearly triple in number to 97 million. For businesses, this demographic shift means a larger Latino consumer market and a growing Latino workforce. Increased purchasing power among the Latino community will make it imperative that many businesses hire more Latino talent to help them understand and gain access to this growing market. For business leaders who want to prepare themselves and their organizations for America’s changing demographics--or tap into the growing influence of Latino consumers--Latino Talent is an indispensable resource.
SUCCESSFUL LATINOS IN THE UNITED STATES: MAKING HISTORY
Author: Daisy Hanis
Publisher: Independently published
ISBN-13: 979-8858420118
Successful Latinos in the United States: Making History is an anthology of events in the lives of each one of our authors, who left their native land looking for opportunities and a better quality of life. This work narrates how they achieved that, managing to conquer the hardest obstacles and show us that dreams can come true based on faith, preparation, discipline, determination, and constant work, giving our best effort. Enjoy these inspirational stories of men and women who are winners and reached the American Dream.
PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP AT THE CROSSROADS
Author: Michael J. Korzi
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1623499730
In this volume, Michael J. Korzi examines Taft’s presidency against the backdrop of early twentieth century politics, placing particular emphasis on Taft’s theory of presidential leadership. Though Taft’s legacy is often overshadowed by those of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, his predecessor and successor, respectively, Taft’s model of presidential leadership was complex and nuanced, forged in a time of changing expectations, at the crossroads between traditional and modern views of what the role of a president should be. This focus on Taft’s leadership adds new dimension to our understandings of the Progressive era and presidential leadership in general.
PRESIDENTS AND TERMINAL LOGIC BEHAVIOR: TERM LIMITS AND EXECUTIVE ACTION IN THE UNITED STATES, BRAZIL, AND ARGENTINA
Author: Genevieve M. Kehoe
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1623491260
Presidents and Terminal Logic Behavior: Term Limits and Executive Action in the United States, Brazil, and Argentina provides both case studies and quantitative evidence to show how U.S. presidents of the last three decades have utilized decrees on foreign, domestic, and environment policy during their final months in office. She finds a systematic pattern of decree use consistent with the mark of TLB in a most unexpected place—presidents’ use of national emergency powers. In a careful comparative analysis, she also finds support for her argument in the Argentinean and Brazilian experience of the same period.
SPEAKING WITH THE PEOPLE’S VOICE
Author: Jeffrey P. Mehltretter Drury
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1623490447
The role of public opinion in American democracy has been a central concern of scholars who frequently examine how public opinion influences policy makers and how politicians, especially presidents, try to shape public opinion. But in this book, Jeffrey P. Mehltretter Drury asks a different question that adds an important new dimension to the study of public opinion: How do presidents rhetorically use public opinion in their speeches? In a careful analysis supported by case studies, Drury develops the concept of “invoked public opinion” to study the modern presidents’ use of public opinion as a rhetorical resource.
BEFORE THE RHETORICAL PRESIDENCY
Edited by: Martin J. Medhurst
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1603440714
Since its identification in 1981, the rhetorical presidency has drawn both defenders and critics. Chief among those critical of the practice is political theorist Jeffrey K. Tulis, whose 1987 book, The Rhetorical Presidency, helped popularize the construct and set forth a sustained analysis of the baleful effects that have allegedly accompanied the shift from a “constitutional” presidency to a “rhetorical” one. Yet not all scholars agree with this assessment. Before the Rhetorical Presidency is an attempt to investigate how U.S. presidents in the nineteenth century communicated with their publics, both congressional and popular.
