Losing America Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency

Name: Losing America Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency
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ISBN: 9780393327014

ISBN-10: 0393327019

ISBN-13: 9780393327014

Edition: 2005

Authors: Robert C. Byrd

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List price: $13.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.83" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Senator Robert C. Byrdnbsp;(1917-2010) of West Virginia, author of a four-volume history of the U.S. Senate, served in the Congress for fifty-seven years, fifty-one of them as a senator.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Losing America



Changing the Tone



An Unpatriotic Act



Worms in the Wood



Tough Talk and Afghanistan



Homeland Insecurity



Confronting the "Axis of Evil"



"Out of Business"



Selling the War


Epilogue


Eight Speeches from the Floor of the Senate


Black Thursday (May 17, 2001)


The Greatest Generations (October 18, 2001)


A Lesson from History (October 10, 2002)


America Unguarded (February 11, 2003)


We Stand Passively Mute (February 12, 2003)


A Troubling Speech (May 6, 2003)


The Emperor Has No Clothes (October 17, 2003)


A Budget of Gimmicks, False Promises, and Unrealistic Expectations (February 27, 2004)