on sex, politics & American life
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Sexual Politics in the Age of Obama
Hopeless:
Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion
(AK Press)
Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank, editors.
ISBN-13: 9781849351102
David Rosen contributed the chapter “Sexual Politics in the Age of Obama,” to this collection assessing Obama’s first term as president.
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Prohibition was the most ambitious effort that Christian moralists imposed on wayward Americans. For a century, fierce temperance advocates attempted to use intimidation and saloon wrecking to halt the liquor trade and alcohol consumption. With the adoption of the 18th Amendment, they turned to state power to impose their values. It failed.
Prohibition New York City explores how the Roaring ‘20s was experienced in Gotham throught the life and adventurers of Texas Guinan, queen of the speakeasies.
The book is richly illustrated with 75 photos from the era.
Order form The History Press
The Book of Violations & Egregious Acts:
Trillion Dollar Broadband Scandal
by Bruce Kushnick and David Rosen
Few Americans know that the U.S. is a second-tier telecom country. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ranks the U.S. 32nd in terms of fiber deployment of the 38 OECD countries. The U.S. is ranked 15th-fastest for mobile speeds (at 110.07 Mbps) and 13th-fastest for broadband speeds (at 203.81 Mbps).
The Book of Violations & Egregious Acts reveals how wireless services are second rate to fiber. It details that while wireless services provide more profits to the telecoms and that hey won’t solve the digital divide. Most importantly, the book details how for decades, the telecoms have manipulated their accounting procedures to maximized profit and diverted billions from state wired public utilities to wireless services.
The Book of Violations & Egregious Acts is available at: Amazon
DISS-CONNECTED:
How America’s Big Telecoms Stole Billions from the Public and Created the Digital Divide
By David Rosen with Bruce Kushnick
DISS-CONNECTED is a free, small book that explains how in America you, your family, friends, businesses and the government are being ripped off by Big Telecom. They include what is now AT&T, Verizon and CenturyLink (Lumen Technologies) and the cable companies. It reveals that telecom deregulation created the digital divide – and government agencies have no clue how to fix it.
DISS-CONNECTED also lays out what Americas can do to fix the damage caused by this telecom/cable cartel, including replacing copper wires and wireless systems with fiber optics.
DISS-CONNECTED can be downloaded for free at:
http://irregulators.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Diss-Connected07-14-23pdf.pdf
Off-Hollywood: The Making & Marketing of Independent Films (Grove Press)
ISBN-10: 0802131875. ISBN-13: 978-0802131874
Off-Hollywood was originally commissioned by the Sundance Institute and the Independent Feature Project (IFP) and remains the only detailed analysis based on proprietary marketing, performance and financial data.
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Sex Scandal America: Politics & The Ritual of Public Shaming (Key Publishing)
ISBN-10: 0978252683, ISBN-13: 978-0978252687
The nature of sex scandals has changed since the first days of the nation’s founding four centuries ago. Barack Obama, the child of an inter-racial marriage, is president; Ronald Reagan, a divorcee, was elected president; Thomas Jefferson’s relation with Sally Hemings or John Kennedy’s affairs with Marilyn Monroe and many others are part of presidential lore; and Bill Clinton’s “sex” with Monica Lewinsky was a political and not a sex scandal. Sex and sex scandals have changed as the nation changed and Sex Scandal America considers the social function of sex scandal and how this function has changed since America’s founding.
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Sin, Sex & Subversion: How What Was Taboo in 1950s New York Became America’s New Normal, (Carrel Books, February 2016) ISBN-13: 978-1631440441, ISBN-10: 1631440446
Nominated for the 2017 Bonnie and Vern Bullough Book Award by the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (FSSS).
He who transgresses not only breaks a rule. He goes somewhere that the others are not; and he knows something the others don’t know. Susan Sontag
Sin, Sex & Subversion is an unorthodox historical tale. It argues that during the tumultuous 1950s, sex was as threatening to the nation’s moral order as communism. New York was the epicenter of two “wars“ — a “cold war” waged against subversion and a “hot war” against sin. Today, the once forbidden has become the new normal.
Sin, Sex & Subversion juxtaposes key 21st century moral concerns to episodes fought out in the ‘50s. Each chapter is anchored in the experience of a leading social “outsider,” a person who illuminates the social struggles over moral values then taking place. Among the issues and personalities — and their link to 21st century values – to be considered are the following.
Each chapter is grounded in a person who can best be described as an “outsider,” someone who pushed the boundaries of moral order.
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The following are articles I’ve published — with links — over the last decade that explore the issue of sex, politics and American life.
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