Jonathan Katz Livres

"A groundbreaking journey tracing America's forgotten path to global power--and how its legacies shape our world today--told through the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine. Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Bestselling books were written about him. Hollywood adored him. Wherever the flag went, 'The Fighting Quaker' went--serving in nearly every major overseas conflict from the Spanish War of 1898 until the eve of World War II. From his first days as a 16-year-old recruit at the newly seized Guantánamo Bay, he blazed a path for empire: helping annex the Philippines and the land for the Panama Canal, leading troops in China (twice), and helping invade and occupy Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Mexico, and more. Yet in retirement, Butler turned into a warrior against war, imperialism, and big business, declaring: 'I was a racketeer for capitalism.' Award-winning author Jonathan Myerson Katz traveled across the world--from China to Guantánamo, the mountains of Haiti to the Panama Canal--and pored over the personal letters of Butler, his fellow Marines, and his Quaker family on Philadelphia's Main Line. Along the way, Katz shows how the consequences of the Marines' actions are still very much alive: talking politics with a Sandinista commander in Nicaragua, getting a martial arts lesson from a devotee of the Boxer Rebellion in China, and getting cast as a P.O.W. extra in a Filipino movie about their American War. Tracing a path from the first wave of U.S. overseas expansionism to the rise of fascism in the 1930s to the crises of democracy in our own time, Gangsters of Capitalism tells an urgent story about a formative era most Americans have never learned about, but that the rest of the world cannot forget"-- Provided by publisher

"On January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to handle it. In this visceral, authoritative first-hand account, Jonathan M. Katz chronicles the terror of that day, the devastation visited on ordinary Haitians, and how the world reacted to a nation in need. Tracing the broken promises, political intrigue, and the deadly cholera epidemic sparked by UN peacekeepers in the earthquake's aftermath, The Big Truck That Went By presents a sharp critique of international aid, uncovers startling truths about how good intentions go wrong, and shows what can be done to make aid 'smarter.'"--Back cover

The Right Side of History tells the 100-year history of queer activism in a series of revealing close-ups, first-person accounts, and intimate snapshots of LGBT pioneers and radicals. This diverse cast stretches from the Edwardian period to today.Described by gay scholar Jonathan Katz as "willfully cacophonous, a chorus of voices untamed," The Right Side of History sets itself apart by starting with the turn-of-the-century bohemianism of Isadora Duncan and the 1924 establishment of the nation’s first gay group, the Society for Human Rights; it also includes gay activism of labor unions in the 1920s and 1930s; the 1950s civil rights movement; the 1960s anti-war protests; the sexual liberation movements of the 1970s; and more contemporary issues such as marriage equality.The book shows how LGBT folk have always been in the forefront of progressive social evolution in the United States. It references heroes like Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bayard Rustin, Harvey Milk, and Edie Windsor. Equally, the book honors names that aren’t in history books, from participants in the Names Project, a national phenomenon memorializing 94,000 AIDS victims, to underground agitprop artists.

“On these pages, Eve Adams rises up, loves, rebels—her times, eerily resembling our own.” —Joan Nestle, cofounder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives and author of A Restricted Country• 2022 Lambda Literary Awards FinalistHistorian Jonathan Ned Katz uncovers the forgotten story of radical lesbian Eve Adams and her long-lost book Lesbian Love  Born Chawa Zloczewer into a Jewish family in Poland, Eve Adams emigrated to the United States in 1912,took a new name, befriended anarchists, sold radical publications, and ran lesbian-and-gay-friendly speakeasies in Chicago and New York. Then, in 1925, Adams risked all to write and publish a book titled  Lesbian Love .Adams’s bold activism caught the attention of the young J. Edgar Hoover and the US Bureau of Investigation, leading to her surveillance and arrest. Adams was convicted of publishing an obscene book and of attempted sex with a policewoman sent to entrap her.Adams was jailed and then deported back to Europe, and ultimately murdered by Nazis in Auschwitz. In The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams , acclaimed historian Jonathan Ned Katz has recovered the extraordinary story of an early, daring activist. Carefully distinguishing fact from fiction, Katz presents the first biography of Adams, and the publisher reprints the long-lost text of Adams’s rare, unique book Lesbian Love

The Third Edition of this widely used textbook for introductory cryptography courses enhances its predecessors by incorporating new sections, topics, and exercises. It focuses on the fundamental principles of modern cryptography, emphasizing formal definitions and rigorous proofs of security, making it a comprehensive resource for students in both mathematics and computer science.

Exploring connections and separations from nature, family, and community, this poetry collection delves into conduct, politics, and ethics while examining the role of art in creating meaning. Jonathan Katz employs richly meditative language and vivid imagery, offering readers "dazzling lines" and "surprising tropes" that intertwine enjoyment with moral questioning. This thought-provoking work invites readers to revisit its themes and poems repeatedly, making it a significant addition to contemporary poetry.

Focusing on the theoretical principles and techniques of secure signature schemes, this book offers an in-depth exploration of digital signatures and their security guarantees. It presents a comprehensive account that enhances the reader's understanding of how these systems are designed and validated for provable security.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2015, held in Gaithersburg, MD, USA, in March/April 2015. The 36 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 118 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: public-key encryption; e-cash; cryptanalysis; digital signatures; password-based authentication; pairint-based cryptography; efficient constructions; cryptography with imperfect keys; interactive proofs; lattice-based cryptography; and identity-based, predicate, and functional encryption.

This book covers a comprehensive range of topics in cryptography and network security. It begins with signature schemes, discussing generic transformations to strongly unforgeable signatures and efficient on-line/off-line signatures that prevent key exposure. It explores Merkle signatures with extensive capacity and delves into computer and network security, contrasting midpoints and endpoints from protocols to firewalls. Notably, it presents an adversary-aware attack model and analyzes electronic cash protocols using applied Pi calculus. The cryptanalysis section addresses vulnerabilities, including the TRMC-4 public key cryptosystem and timing attacks on Blakley’s algorithm, while also discussing methods to protect AES implementations against power analysis. Group-oriented security is examined through constant-round authenticated group key exchanges and strategies to prevent collusion attacks on one-way function trees. The book also introduces innovative cryptographic protocols, such as a new method for conditional disclosure of secrets, unconditionally secure multi-party set intersection protocols, and privacy-preserving set unions. It covers identity-based cryptography, including proxy re-encryption and identification schemes, and discusses security in wireless and peer-to-peer networks, highlighting efficient content authentication and self-healing key distribution methods. Finally, it presents advanced signature schem