America The Last Best Hope (Volume III)

Name: America The Last Best Hope (Volume III)
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ISBN: 9781595554284

ISBN-10: 1595554289

ISBN-13: 9781595554284

Edition: 2011

Authors: William J. Bennett

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Author, historian, and educator William J. Bennett examines America's last two decades. Twenty#xA0;years ago, John McCain was serving his second year in the Senate, and Colin Powell had just been promoted to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. There was no Fox News Channel, no American Idol. Saddam Hussein and the Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeni ruled Iraq and Iran, respectively. George W. Bush was the fairly unnoticeable son of the then-president. If you asked someone to "email me," you would have received a blank stare, and "Amazon" was a forest in South America. Finally,#xA0;20 years ago a young man named Barack Obama was elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. The two…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Incorporated
Publication date: 10/10/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.40" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Introduction



Enemies Abroad, Challenges at Home



The Choppy Seas of the 1988 Election



A Scourge at Home



A New Set of Bricks and Tanks



A Scourge Abroadï¿½A Just Cause



Storms at Home



Storms in the Desert



A New Attention to Race



Greatness and Gratitude



Rise of the Boomer



"It's the Economy, Stupid!" The Election of 1992



"We Force the Spring"



Trouble in Texas



A Bomb in the World Trade Center



A Rare Flash of Temper and an Attempt at Peace



Scandal Brews



Reclaiming the Agenda



A Weakened President



Los Angeles



The Republican "Revolution"



Terrorism Homegrown



State




Social Thought at Home and the 1996 Elections



Terrorism and Peace Abroad



Into the Fire



Lessons in the Lull



the Tangled Web



And Yet Duty Still Called



The President Hangs On



Beyond Politics l999 to 2000



The World Pivots on a Grain of Sand



America and Islam Again



The 2000 Election



The Contested Contest



The Middle EastGets Closer Than Ever Before



Bush arid the Age of Terror



Bush Begins



"Let's Roll



the Next Phase



The Politics of War



Midterm Election and Troubles on the Right



Midterm Election.



Eyes on Iraq



The War Begins



In War and Culture


A Claser Of Values. A New Media, A Mew Election



Big and Completed



The Struggle at Home Begins



"Your Government Failed You": Bush in Doubt



Dishonest and Demagogic



A New Voice on the Scene



Of Swift Boats and Service Records



The Way the Culture Blows



Peril and Promise in Wat"


Two Great American Stories, A New Direction for America



Grand Goals and an Uneasy Coalition



The Storms Hit



Questions of Legality



Losing the Base



The Surge



The 2008 Presidential Race Begins



The Audacity of Barack Obama



End Game


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Mies


Index