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Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
America and the Great War (1914-1921) 1
"Home Before the Leaves Fall"
"Too Proud to Fight"
Roosevelt to France?
Over There!
Wilson in Paris
"A War to End all Wars"
The Boom and the Bust (1921-1933) 56
The Roaring Twenties
Sunrise at Campobello
A Harlem Renaissance
Normalcy
"Keep Cool with Coolidge"
"The Lone Eagle"
Peace and Prosperity
"Two Chickens in Every Pot"
Crash!
"Happy Days Are Here Again"
The New Deal
FDR and the New Deal (1933-1939) 111
The Hundred Days ... and After
Hitler's Games: The Berlin Olympics
"As Goes Maine..."
FDR's "Risky Scheme"
"The March of Time"
Rebuilding America
America's Rendezvous with Destiny (1939-1941) 147
Man of the Year
America on the Road to War
"Sail on, O Union Strong and Great"
"Sink the Bismarck!"
"If Hitler Invaded Hell..."
Leading the Grand Alliance (1941-1943) 182
1941: "A Year of Holding Our Breath"
A Day of Infamy
A World at War
The Battle of the Atlantic
America Strikes Back
America Victorious (1943-1945) 220
Overlord
"The Sun Goes Down on More Suffering..."
Democracy: "The Mustard on the Hot Dog"
Harry Truman: "The Moon, the Stars, and All the Planets"
The Flag of Freedom
Truman Defends the Free World (1945-1953) 268
A Cold War Begins
Red Stars in Hollywood
Ha Tikva-The Hope of Israel
The BerlinAirlift of 1948
"Give 'em Hell, Harry!"
Under the Cloud of War
The Korean Conflict
The Man from Independence
Eisenhower and Happy Days (1953-1961) 308
"I Like Ike!"
The Kremlin's Long Shadow
Freedom Rising
"We Will Bury You!"
Ike's Last Years
Passing the Torch (1961-1969) 335
The New Frontier
"Godspeed, John Glenn!"
"Eyeball to Eyeball" over Cuba
Freedom on the March
22 November 1963
"An Idea Whose Time Has Come"
A Choice, Not an Echo
Operation Hope Not: Churchill's Funeral
"We Shall Overcome!"
Vietnam
1968: Annus Horribilis
Nixon's the One (1969-1974) 398
"Give a Damn!"
"The Eagle Has Landed!"
The Silent Majority
Nixon to China
The Election of 1972
Roe v. Wade: "Raw Judicial Power"
Watergate Spills Over
The Years the Locusts Ate (1974-1981) 444
"I'm not a Lincoln, I'm a Ford"
1976: A Bicentennial Election
"Moral Equivalent of War"
America Held Hostage
"USA! USA!"
Reagan and Revival (1981-1989) 480
1981: A New Beginning
An Evil Empire
"Morning in America"
"We Can Do Business..."
Reykjavik: The Clash
Iran-Contra
"Tear Down This Wall!"
Into the Sunset
Epilogue 531
Notes 535
Index 577
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Marc Ferm
reviewed America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II): From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom on July 26, 2011
America
Volume Two of Bennett's history survey takes us from the turn of the century through Reagan's second term. Bennett is a patriot, so you Howard Zinn fans will hate this book - if you like American you may find this refreshing. Bennett presents our history warts and all, but avoids the continual bashing that some textbooks focus. Probably the best example of this patriotic but balanced history is the coverage of the Vietnam War. Yes, we widened the war when we made incursions into Cambodia, but most texts ignore that the Cambodians wanted us there since the Viet Cong were invading their country. Further the bombings were successful and helped lead to the Paris peace accords. Bennett discusses our shameful behavior after we left Vietnam. We agreed to lend air support in order to defend the South Vietnamese. When the North realized that we were cutting and running, the south fell within two years, the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia and 2 million died; all this because we wouldn't do a little high altitude bombing. Most texts cover this incident in just the opposite fashion -- it was bad to widen the war, but it was honorable and right that we abandoned the South Vietnamese and Cambodians.
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