Respected scholar Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in this engaging narrative that slices through the cobwebs of time, memory, and prevailing cynicism to reinvigorate America with an informed patriotism.
Endeavors to present the history of the United States from a balanced perspective, describing both positive and negative events, and illuminating the powerful leaders who steered the country on the path of freedom, revised and updated into ...
In Last Best Hope, George Packer traces the shocks back to their sources.
Endeavors to present the history of the United States from a balanced perspective, describing both positive and negative events, and illuminating the powerful leaders who steered the country on the path of freedom.
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William J. Bennett. to get the UN to authorize action to repel the North Korean aggression. Now, just five years after MacArthur had stood on the deck of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay to proclaim the return of peace, the United States ...
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was then in charge of the occupation of Japan as what some called a “Star-Spangled Mikado [Emperor]. ... William D. Leahy, Ernest J. King, Chester W. Nimitz, and William F. (“Bull”) Halsey.
A portrait of Abraham Lincoln analyzes the great president's political career, his fierce nationalism, his greater moral purpose that made him oppose slavery, and other facets of his life and times.
Here in this collection of twenty-eight speeches spanning the Reagan era, readers can find inspiration in Reagan’s “sermons.” From his first speech in the political arena in 1964 to his Last Letter to America, informing Americans of ...
Graebner, Norman A., Empire on the Pacific: A Study in Continental Expansion, Regina Books, Claremont, Calif.: 1983, pp. 224–225. 2. McPherson, James M., The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, Oxford University Press, ...
Intended to demonstrate that faith and science are compatible, it dates to 1847, when shortly after his election, Pope Pius IX resurrected a former Roman scientific academy once led by Galileo. Today, about eighty scientists from around ...