A Century Turns: New Fears, New Hopes - America 1988 to 2008: Library Edition

Bennett, William J.

ISBN 10: 1609810171 ISBN 13: 9781609810177

Casa editrice: Oasis Audio, 2010

Riassunto

The whole world can change in twenty years - and it did.  Where is America going?  Just look at the decades between 1988 and 2008.  As America collectively exhaled at the end of the Cold War, we loosened our grip on the fear of nuclear confrontation for the first time since WWII.  Some scholars even characterized teh collapse of the Soviet Union as the end of history itself.  Peace was palpable.  But America's domestic and global vitals changed almost instantly, and turbulence, not tranquility, marked the turn of the century: the war on drugs, race riots, values debates, deep economic shifts, and the growing threat of terrorism on U.S. soil that would tragically play out in 2001.  And there were storms abroad:  U.S. forces landed in Panama, Somalia, Kuwai, Afghanistan, and Iraq.  Names such as Yasser Arafat, Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden folded seamlessly - and almost instantly - into the American vernacular.  Where is America going?  Recent history offers the only signposts.  What Bennett makes clear is that we are at a critical juncture:  "Today, the levels of both hope and fear are at a high point.  Whether we can expand the former and reduce the latter... will depend on what we do with the challenges before us today."

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William J. Bennett is one of Ameria' most important, influential and respected voices on cultural, political, and educational issues.  A Brooklyn native, Bill Bennett studied philosophy at Williams College (B.A.) and the University of Texas (Ph.D.) and earned a law degree from Harvard.  Host of the top-ten nationally syndicated radio show, Bill Bennett's Morning in America, heard in over 135 cities across the nation, he is also the Washington Fellow of the Claremont Institute.  Former secretary of education and chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities under President Reagan and director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President Bush, today Bennett is a regular contributor to CNN and has contributed to America's leading newspapers, magazines, and television shows.  He is the author and editor of eighteen books, including The Book of Virtues, The Death of Outrage, and the New York Times best-selling two-volume history, America: The Last Best Hope

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• Editore: Oasis Audio
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1609810171
• ISBN 13: 9781609810177
• Rilegatura: Audio CD