Clifford W Brown

Teaching Us: The Class of 1960 at Moses Brown School: Volume III, In Contest is a detailed description of the athletic program at Moses Brown School during the 1950s. This partly autobiographical account is based on the author's personal recollections, interviews with classmates, interviews with surviving coaches from that era, and on a documentary record that includes accounts of sports events in School publications (both official and student) and in the Providence Journal. Coaching techniques, skills developed, and strategic thinking are emphasized in the accounts presented. This volume constitutes an intensive review of the contribution of sports to student growth and learning at a quality private K-12 New England Quaker preparatory school in the 1950s.

Teaching Us: The Class of 1960 at Moses Brown: Volume II, After Class is a detailed description of the non-athletic extra-curricular activities at Moses Brown School during the 1950s. These include: student government, social life, intellectual clubs (e.g., the Chess Club), avocational clubs (e.g. the Camera Club), performance clubs (including Model UN and high school theater), and student publications. This partly autobiographical account is based on the author's personal recollections, interviews with classmates, interviews with surviving faculty and coaches from that era, and on an extensive documentary record of class notes, exams, and textbooks. Here is an intensive review of the contribution extra-curricular activities made to student growth and learning at a quality K-12 New England Quaker preparatory school in the 1950s-near the end of the "pre-electronic" classroom instructional era.

Teaching Us: The Class of 1960 at Moses Brown School: Volume I, In Class, is a detailed description of the classroom teaching methods of Moses Brown's extraordinary faculty during the 1950s. This partly autobiographical account is based on the author's personal recollections, interviews with classmates, interviews with surviving faculty and coaches from that era, and on an extensive documentary record of class notes, exams, and textbooks. Here is an intensive review of educational practices at a quality K-12 New England Quaker preparatory school in the 1950s-near the end of the "pre-electronic" classroom instructional era. It describes the learning experiences of students-from their vantage point-long before innovations such as the "New Math," as well as the internet, Google, electronic books, and instant access to a wide range of information sources, began to change primary and secondary education. Teaching Us therefore provides not only an interesting (and often entertaining) glimpse into the classrooms of nearly three-quarters of a century ago, but also provides a useful resource for scholars and historians of education.

Serious Money offers detailed analysis of the relationship between fundraising methods and contributing decisions in presidential nomination campaigns, based largely upon newly conducted surveys of contributors to both the 1988 and 1992 campaigns. Brown, Powell and Wilcox explore the fundamental differences detween direct mail solicitation and personal-solicitation networks, and how candidate resources dictate the use of unique methods of solicitation. Candidate resources analysed include home state power bases, access to national party networks and the national legislative agenda, congressional office, social identity, and ideological proximity. With respect to contributing decisions, the book focuses on the three fundamental sources of the decision to contribute: the purposive, solidary, and material motives of contributors.

Clifford W. Brown, Jr. and Robert J. Walker outline and analyze the entire Anderson/Lucey platform. The book includes the original Program of the Anderson/Lucey National Unity Campaign; a summary of the platform--Rebuilding a Society that Works: An Agenda for America; and the Budget Impact Statement which outlines the full financial implications of Anderson's proposals. Brown and Walker, who participated in the writing of the platform, discuss contemporary political platforms and differentiate the Anderson/Lucey platform from those of the major political parties in 1980 in an informative introduction. They also briefly describe the Anderson campaign, focusing on Anderson's rise to national attention, the role of the research department that produced the platform, the process of writing it, and its reception by the national news media.