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A state of the union address as the twentieth century turned into the twenty-first-from the New York Times—bestselling author of “America, the Last Best Hope”.
In “A Century Turns”, William J. Bennett explores America's recent and momentous history-the contentious election of 1988, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of global Communism, the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton, the technological and commercial boom of the 1990s,...
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America began to breathe easy at the close of the Cold War and loosened its grip on the fear of nuclear confrontation for the first time since World War Two. Peace was palpable, but in retrospect the years between 1988 and 2008 were as rocky as they were uncertain. Turbulence, not tranquility, marked the turn of the century: the war on drugs, race riots, values debates, deep economic shifts, and the growing threat of terrorism on U. S. soil that would...
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