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America The Last Best Hope Vol 1 From Age of Discovery to a World at War w/DJ
America The Last Best Hope Vol 1 From the Age of Discovery to a World at War by William J Bennett
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
574 pages
Copyright 2006
CONTENTS
Acknowledgmentsxi
Introductionxiii
Chapter 1: Westward the Course (1492-1607)1
I. Columbus: "The Christ Bearer"
II. The Scramble for Empire
III. The Rise of England
Chapter 2: A City Upon a Hill (1607-1765)30
I. Coming to America
II. The Great Migration
III. Expanding English Rule
IV. Dr. Britain and France: Conflict for a Continent
V. Religious and Intellectual Awakenings
VI. Britain and France: The Final Conflict
Chapter 3: The Greatest Revolution (1765-1783)62
I. Stamping Out Unfair Taxes
II. A Total Separation
III. "The Shot Heard 'Round the World"
IV. A Continental War
V. The French Alliance
VI. "The World Turned Upside Down"
VII. A Dangerous Peace
Chapter 4: Reflection and Choice:107 Framing the Constitution (1783-1789)
I. A Critical Period
II. "The Great Little Madison"
III. The Struggle for Ratification
Chapter 5: The New Republic (1789-1801)133
I. "The Sacred Fire of Liberty"
II. Madison's Bill of Rights
III. "A Host in Himself": Hamilton's New System
IV. Hurricane Genet
V. A Long and Difficult Farewell
VI. War, Peace, and Honest John Adams
VII. The Revolution of 1800
Chapter 6: The Jeffersonians (1801-1829)177
I. "An Empire for Liberty"
II. Lewis & Clark: "The Corps of Discovery"
III. Plots, Trials, and Treason
IV. "A Splendid Misery": Jefferson's Last Years
V. "Mr. Madison's War"
VI. The Battle of New Orleans
VII. "An Era of Good Feeling"
VIII. The Missouri Compromise
IX. The Monroe Doctrine
X. "A Corrupt Bargain": The Election of 1824
XI. "Is It the Fourth?": Adams and Jefferson Die
Chapter 7: Jackson and Democracy (1829-1849)220
I. From Caucus to Raucous: The Election of 1828
II. The Peggy Eaton Affair
III. John C. Calhoun: The Cast-Iron Man
IV. "Our Federal Union: It Must Be Preserved!"
V. The Tragedy of Indian Removal
VI. Jackson's War on the Bank
VII. "Old Man Eloquent"
VIII. "Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too!"
IX. Great Harry of the West
X. Reannexing Texas and Reoccupying Oregon
XI. "The Halls of Montezuma"
Chapter 8: The Rising Storm (1849-1861)269
I. California and The Compromise of 1850
II. Railroads and Reform
III. "Bleeding Kansas"
IV. Dred Scott
V. Lincoln Meets Douglas
VI. John Brown and Harpers Ferry
VII. The Election of 1860
Chapter 9: Freedom's Fiery Trial (1860-1863)311
I. Secession Winter (1860-61)
II. Fort Sumter: The Circle of Fire
III. "A People's Contest": The Civil War Begins
IV. "One War at a Time": The Trent Affair
V. 1862: "Year of Jubilee"
VI. Emancipation: "Forever Free"
Chapter 10: A New Birth of Freedom (1863-1865)356
I. Gettysburg: The Confederacy's High-Water Mark
II. The Agony of Abraham Lincoln
III. "Long Abraham a Little Longer"
IV. The Union Victorious
Chapter 11: To Bind Up the Nation's Wounds (1865-1877)393
I. Pass in Review
II. Thunder on the Borders: South and North
III. Reconstruction and Renewal
IV. Impeachment
V. "Let Us Have Peace"
VI. A Tragic Divorce in Freedom's Ranks
VII. The Spirit of 1876
VIII. A Dangerous Dispute
Chapter 12: An Age More Golden Than Gilded? (1877-1897) 434
I. A Gilded Age?
II. Reform, Roosevelts, and Reaction
III. Grover Cleveland: "Tell the Truth!"
IV. The Golden Door
V. Winning the West
VI. A Social Gospel
VII. "A Cross of Gold"
VIII. "From the New World"
Chapter 13: The American Dynamo475 Shadowed by War (1897-1914)
I. "A Splendid Little War"
II. Rough Rider Politics
III. TR in the White House
IV. TR and the Square Deal
V. Wielding the Big Stick
VI. The Taft Interlude
VII. Unsinkable, Unthinkable
VIII. A Bull Moose on the Loose: The Election of 1912
IX. Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom
X. "The Lights Are Going Out .."
Notes527
Index563
ON THE BACK COVER
WITH COMMAND AND WIT, William J. Bennett reacquaints Americans with their heritage in an engaging narrative that cuts through the cobwebs of time, memory, and prevailing cynicism. Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and others 'reemerge not as marble iconsor dust-dry names in a textbook, but as full-blooded, heroic pioneers whose far-reaching vision forged a nation that attractedthat still attractsmillions yearning to breathe free. In this, the first volume of a "reasoned, balanced presentation of the American story," Bennett tells our nation's story, with all its triumphs and tragedies. He summons us to embrace America's cause once again as "the last best hope of earth."
"For too long Americans have been looking for a history of our country that tells the story of America's triumphs as well as its tragedies. Now Bill Bennett has come forward with AMERICA: THE LAST BEST HOPE, which tells the storyfairly and fullyfrom 1492 to 1914. Americans who have been reading recent biographies of the Founding Fathers will love this book." MICHAEL BARONE U.S. News & World Report, CO-AUTHOR OF The Almanac of American Politics
"The role of history is to inform, inspire, and sometimes provoke us, which is why Bill Bennett's wonderfully readable book is so important. He puts our nation's triumphs, along with its lapses, into the context of a narrative about the progress of freedom. Every now and then it's useful to be reminded that we are a fortunate people, blessed with generations of leaders who repeatedly renewed the meaning of America."
WALTER ISAACSON AUTHOR OF Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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