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Also by William J. Bennett:

A Century Turns, January 2010
Hardcover
The True Saint Nicholas, November 2009
Hardcover
The American Patriot's Almanac, December 2008
Hardcover
America, October 2007
Hardcover
America: The Last Best Hope, April 2007
Hardcover

America
William J. Bennett

The Last Best Hope

Volumes I & II Box Set
Thomas Nelson
October 2007
On Sale: October 16, 2007
1184 pages
ISBN: 1595551255
EAN: 9781595551252
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Political

William J. Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in two volumes of America: The Last Best Hope.

While national test scores reveal that American students know startlingly little about their history, former U.S. Education Secretary William J. Bennett offers one of the most gripping and memorable versions of the American story in print. The two volumes of Bennett's New York Times bestselling epic, America: The Last Best Hope, cover Columbus's discovery of the New World in the fifteenth century to the fall of world communism in the twentieth. Now both volumes are available in a convenient and attractive slip case-complete with a bonus audio CD, "Remembering Ronald Reagan," featuring recollections and commentary by Jeane Kirkpatrick, Edwin Meese, and others.

Bill Bennett brings American history to life with stories such as:

• the coup d'etat quelled by a pair of reading glasses
• the U.S. senator nearly caned to death on the Senate floor
• the presidential pardon for hundreds of Sioux warriors
• one ex-president's race to finish his memoirs and the famous humorist who helped him
• when Time magazine named Hitler man of the year
• Eisenhower's bold actions documenting the horrors of the Holocaust
• Nixon's comic opera uniforms for White House guards
• Reagan's most famous example of just saying "No"

From heroism of the Revolution to the dire hours of the Civil War, from the progressive reforms of the early 1900s to the civil rights reforms of the 1960s, from the high drama of the Space Race to the gut-wrenching tension of the Cold War, Bennett slices through the cobwebs of time, memory, and prevailing cynicism to reinvigorate America with an informed patriotism.

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