America - The Last Best Hope: From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom, 1914-1989

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Thomas Nelson Inc, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 608 pages

Respected scholar William Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in the second volume of America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II). This engaging narrative slices through the cobwebs of time, memory, and prevailing cynicism to reinvigorate America with an informed patriotism.

 

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Contents

Front Cover
593
Table of Contents
vii
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
xv
An Age More Golden Than Gilded? 18771897
1
The American Dynamo Shadowed by War 18971914
42
America and the Great War 19141921
93
The Boom and the Bust 19211933
148
America Victorious 19431945
312
Truman Defends the Free World 19451953
360
Eisenhower and Happy Days 19531961
400
Passing the Torch 19611969
427
Nixons the One 19691974
490
The Years the Locusts Ate 19741981
536
Reagan and Revival 19811989
572
Epilogue
623

FDR and the New Deal 19331939
203
Americas Rendezvous with Destiny 19391941
239
Leading the Grand Alliance 19411943
274
Notes
627
Index
669

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About the author (2008)

William John Bennett (born July 3, 1943) is an American politician and political theorist. He served as United States Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988. He also held the post of Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (or "Drug Czar") under George H. W. Bush. Bennett was born in Brooklyn but later moved to Washington, D.C., where he attended Gonzaga College High School. He graduated from Williams College and went on to get a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in Political Philosophy. He also has a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Bibliographic information

TitleAmerica - The Last Best Hope: From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom, 1914-1989
AuthorWilliam J. Bennett
Editionillustrated
PublisherThomas Nelson Inc, 2008
ISBN1595550879, 9781595550873
Length608 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State
Biography & Autobiography / Religious
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
History / United States / 20th Century
History / United States / 21st Century
History / United States / General
  
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