America: The Last Best Hope, Vol. III: From the Collapse of Communism to the Rise of Radical Islam
Written by William J. Bennett
Narrated by Jon Gauger
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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. P<>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."
An Oasis Audio media production.
William J. Bennett
Dr. William J. Bennett is one of America’s most influential and respected voices on cultural, political, and educational issues. Host of The Bill Bennett Show podcast, he is also the Washington Fellow of the American Strategy Group. He is the author and editor of more than twenty-five books. Dr. Bennett served as the secretary of education and chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities under President Ronald Reagan and as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President George Herbert Walker Bush.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This volume begins where the last volume ended-- with the events leading up to World War I. Bennett uses the outline of American history but then fills in the outline with anecdotes and quotes. This doesn't give the reader an in depth view of American history, but it gives one a panoramic view. From time to time, he sinks a post hole and goes for more depth. As he approaches the 1970s, his writing becomes more personal since he was involved in the politics at that time. The presidency of Ronald Reagan becomes almost a biographical account of Reagan's presidency, but Reagan's presidency does tie into the theme of the two books. He adds a lot of footnotes that are immensely interesting but would interrupt the flow of the narrative. Did you know that William Bennett dated Janis Joplin?! As in the last book, he writes as if he is sitting next to you telling you a story. These two volumes are good overview of the history of the United States.