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Glen A. Smith describes the Prior Mountain range and the unique situation that stockmen faced raising herds in a land with little water. He reports on the early years of his marriage to Chrissy C. Rowe, and the birth of their three children. Smith describes the first completed road between Libby and Troy that ran along the banks of the Kootenai River, noting that such developments reflected the transition to "living in a civilized country." He recalls his job working for the Kootenai National Forest which he notes was more challenging professionally than his jobs at either Beartooth or Custer National Forest due to the Forest Homestead Act of June 11, 1906, which initiated efforts to identify agricultural land within the national forest bounds and clear it for use. Smith recalls tensions between the community and the federal government in regards to timber rights policy decisions along the banks of Kootenai River. ; https://scholarworks.umt.edu/glensmith_reminiscences/1005/thumbnail.jpg

Consider three transactions: (1) federal legislation passed by Congress; (2) an order of judgment in a private lawsuit; and (3) a contractual arrangement between private parties. If one were asked to rank those transactions in order of the potential impact they should have on public and social policy, they would probably appear in the order that they are listed. Intuition, experience, and plain common sense might likely lead to the conclusion that legislation has the greatest impact on public policy, private agreements the least,' and final judgments in litigation somewhere in between. Democratic principles provide very good reasons for this ordering. On matters of public policy lawmaking, the legislative process is supposed to provide citizens with the participatory and representative clout guaranteed by the Constitution. Slightly farther down the continuum, the outcome of litigation, while still a matter between private parties, is governed by laws publicly enacted and by judges who are bound to use and interpret those laws. Alternatively, private agreements have none of these restrictions. Although principles of contract law prevent agreements that baldly subvert existing laws or mores, beyond the scope of that restriction, they represent a free-for-all. Parties will (and according to efficiency principles, should) bargain for the most advantageous agreement and tend to think little about the costs to society at large.

In ihrer Dissertation untersucht die Germanistin Nicola Westphal die Gestaltung des erzählten Raumes in den Romanen Uwe Johnsons. Innerhalb des Gesamtwerkes kann sie so eine Zunahme der Vielfalt an Erzähltechniken feststellen, die dazu führt, die literarische Präsentation des Raumes als ein komplexes Phänomen zu fassen. Durch textnahe Analysen und den Rückgriff auf sozialwissenschaftliche Raummodelle verdeutlicht die Autorin, dass innerhalb des Johnsonschen Romanwerks politische und historische Zustände und Prozesse in einer fiktiven Wirklichkeit verräumlicht werden und dort durch ihre Verdichtung zur poetischen Qualität der Romane und Erzählungen beitragen.

Portrait engraved by John Hall after Sir Joshua Reynolds. ; Imprint varies. ; V. 1. Life. Poems. Irene, a tragedy -- v. 2. Philological tracts. Political and miscellaneous essays -- v. 3. Dissertation on Greek comedy fr. Brumoy. Observations on Macbeth. Adventurer. Rasselas -- v. 4-6. Rambler -- v. 7 Idler -- v. 8. Miscellaneous essays. Political tracts. Journal to western islands of Scotland -- v.9-11. Lives of English poets -- v. 12. Lives of eminent persons. Letters. Prayers. Index. ; Fleeman, J.D. Johnson, ; Mode of access: Internet.

"C. Douglas Dillon--heir to a vast investment banking fortune, and one of the richest men in America during his political career--was a Republican who served in a Democratic administration, and became one of the greatest modern treasury secretaries. He believed in bipartisanship and public duty, a sensibility that has all but faded from the current political climate. With exclusive access to the family's archive, in The Dillon Era Richard Aldous sets fresh eyes on a well-documented period in recent American history, unfolding a deeply influential but somewhat overlooked political career. In 1953 President Eisenhower appointed Dillon as ambassador to Paris and promoted him to second in command in the State Department. Tapped by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson for treasury secretary to reassure Wall Street that the nation's finances were in safe hands, Dillon would become one of President Kennedy's closest advisors, and perhaps the only cabinet member who was a personal friend. His impact on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations was immense, not least in delivering the most comprehensive income tax cuts the nation had ever seen. Overseas, he worked to sustain political cooperation as the Bretton Woods system threatened to unravel. By the time he left office in 1965, the Washington Post recognized Dillon as "by far the best Secretary of the Treasury of the postwar period," and European Community president Walter Hallstein hailed a new "Dillon era." Dillon advocated for evolution and reform over radicalism, and he placed the national interest above party interest. The Dillon Era throws new light on the postwar period, identifying Dillon as a pivotal figure in American policymaking during these crucial years in the Cold War."--