David Callahan

In this new book, David Callahan offers a thorough history of ethnic conflicts both before and after the fall of Communism. He outlines the failures and successes of American diplomacy's haphazard approaches to this strife, and offers compelling evidence of the need for a consistent American policy toward ethnic conflict, a policy that should extend beyond the peace of individual countries to international trade, economics, the environment, and more. Callahan's sensible recommendations for how to predict and prevent ethnic conflicts - and intervene when necessary - will prove invaluable for all those interested in the global power of the United States in the next century.

"Reading Fortunes of Change is like finding the missing piece to a jigsaw puzzle. Sweeping economic changes are profoundly reshaping our politics-and not in ways we usually think. These shifts are reshaping our politics-and not in ways we usually think. These shifts are reshaping the beliefs of the upper class and creating a new and very potent political force-the liberal wealth elite. Callahan's must-read book provides a whole new perspective on our economy and political culture."--Richard Florida, author of the Rise of the Creative Class. "David Callahan delivers an eye-opening and deeply informed examination of a trend he spotted first: how the rise of wealth based on intellectual firepower is challenging the narrow-minded antagonisms fostered by the old economy's industrial oligarchs and creating a broader, richer democracy. Fortunes of Change breaks new ground and should be read by anyone who wants to understand America's changing political landscape."--David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Perfectly Legal and Free Lunch. In Fortunes of Change, David Callahan contends that something big is happening among the rich in America: they're drifting to the left. In Fortunes of Change, we meet an upper class increasingly filled with super-educated professionals and entrepreneurs who work in "knowledge" industries and live in the bluest parts of America. This cosmopolitan elite takes for granted such key liberal ideas as multiculturalism and active government, and have ever less in common with an extremist GOP based in small-town America and dominated by Tea Party activists and the likes of Sarah Palin. With groundbreaking research and profiles of key wealthy liberals, Callahan explains why the ranks of the liberal rich will keep growing, thanks to ongoing changes in the economy and the liberalism of elite educational institutions, and why this group will become ever more powerful. In the process, he busts myths, slays sacred cows, and topples the conventional wisdom about who really runs America and what they think. Fortunes of Change will cause heated debate as many Republicans find their biases confirmed and debate how to recapture an upper class that used to side squarely with the GOP. Liberal activists will read the book with excitement, but also apprehension, as they grapple with new allies who may care more about polar bears than janitors, or more about legalizing gay marriage than controlling CEO pay. Packed with surprising facts and behind the scene stories, Fortunes of Change is a must-read book if you want to understand how America's politics and culture are changing-and what the future may hold. --Book Jacket.

"They stormed the beaches of Normandy and the islands of the South Pacific, but the exceptional generation of Americans that won World War II also produced the greatest group of business leaders of the post-war era. Harvard Business School's class of 1949 consisted mostly of military veterans who came to Cambridge thanks to the GI Bill. Molded by the hardships of depression and war, few 49ers sought fabulous wealth as an end in itself. Their conscientious leadership would forever change the course of American business." "By the standards of the go-go '80s and '90s, and today's corporate scandals, the values that defined the 49ers seem quaint; that wealth is created patiently, without cutting corners; that successful companies are those that make real things of real value; that integrity is an end in itself; and that greed is not good." "Those values guided the 49ers to the pinnacle of business success. Leading 49ers helped orchestrate a profound transformation of business in the decades after World War II: The rise of consumer products and services as a key engine of growth; the growing role of technology in spurring innovation and profits; and creative changes on Wall Street that leveraged wealth in extraordinary ways. From the heights of power - 28 percent of the class retired as CEO or president of his company - the 49ers shaped trends in nearly every sector of American business." "Among the legendary figures of the Class of '49 are Marvin Traub, who turned Bloomingdale's into a fashion trendsetter; James Burke, who built Johnson & Johnson into a household name; Peter McColough, whose Xerox Corporation spearheaded the personal computer revolution; and William Ruane, who helped bring "value investing" to Wall Street, creating one of the most successful mutual funds of all time."--Jacket.

Sarah Winnemucca is the granddaughter of a great Paiute Indian chief who believes in learning the ways of the white people and making peace with them. At his wish, Sarah travels, live with a white family, and goes to school. She learns English, and becomes fascinated with reading and writing. Yet, Sarah loves the ways of her own village as well: living close to the land, wearing soft moccasins on her feet, hearing her grandfather's folktales. Moving back and forth between the two worlds begins to rock Sarah's sense of identity. She is not white, and yet she is not typically Paiute, either. When violence arises between her tribe and the white people, Sarah must find a way to use the knowledge she possesses-- instead of bows and arrows or rifles-- to help her people. This beautiful novel is based on the true story of Sarah Winnemucca, a gifted teacher, a passionate peacemaker, a hero.