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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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