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Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--and Those Fighting to Reverse It
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the Vietnam War, shock waves rattled the marble palaces of Washington.
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
As an adult, Wilson shared none of Roosevelt’s lust for violent conquest. For his secretary of state he chose William Jennings…
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Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity
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Europe, as noted earlier, has in a short span of time gone from being the most predictable and stable region—one where history seemed to have truly ended (as suggested in an influential essay published in 1989 by the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama)—to something dramatically different. Democracy, prosperity, and peace all seemed firml
... See moreRichard Haass • The World
It was a realization similar to that made by U.S. entrepreneurs following the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Iron Curtain. Projections of a massive burgeoning of trade between the West and the Communist bloc came to little, for those newly opened nations were producing virtually nothing of interest to highly developed nations and la
... See moreLes Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
The battle lines were drawn. And foreign policy was the decisive issue.