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A Century Turns

A Century Turns New Fears, New Hopes--America 1988 to 2008

By William Bennett

Average Blogger Rating: 4.2 Stars

Author, historian, and educator William J. Bennett examines America’s last two decades.

Twenty years ago, John McCain was serving his second year in the Senate, and Colin Powell had just been promoted to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. There was no Fox News Channel, no American Idol. Saddam Hussein and the Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeni ruled Iraq and Iran, respectively. George W. Bush was the fairly unnoticeable son of the then-president. If you asked someone to “email me,” you would have received a blank stare, and “Amazon” was a forest in South America. Finally, 20 years ago a young man named Barack Obama was elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. The two decades from 1988 to 2008 have proved to be some of the most pivotal in America’s history. Based on a lifetime of experience in government and education, William J. Bennett defines the events that shaped American history during the final years of the century.

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4 Stars

On 3/13 Prasad Ram wrote: When I started the review of this book, I was not sure if I should be merely be reviewing the content or try to interpret it based on my own perceptions about USA. The more I read the book, the more I realized that it opened up new avenues of thoughts and gave me enough scope to come to my own conclusions. ... Review of "A Century Turns - New Hopes, New Fears" by William J. Bennett

Prasad's Rating:

4 Stars

On 3/11 John Harvey wrote: “A Century Turns: New Hopes, New Fears” is a wonderful piece of American history painted within the frame of someone who was in the room as events, discussions, policy fights and diplomatic decisions were made in the last decade of the twentieth century. William Bennett not only discusses the policy ... "A Century Turns"

John's Rating:

5 Stars