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Informationen zum Autor Dr. William J. Bennett is one of America's most influential and respected voices on cultural! political! and educational issues. Host of "The Bill Bennett Show" podcast! he is also the Washington Fellow of the American Strategy Group. He is the author and editor of more than twenty-five books! and lives in North Carolina. Klappentext Based on a lifetime of experience in government and education, Bennett defines the events that shaped American history during the final years of the 20th century. Zusammenfassung 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! the war on terror! and the election of America's first black president. Surveying politics and pop culture! economics and technology! war and religion! Bennett pieces together the players! the personalities! the feats and the failures that transformed key moments in the American story. And he captures it all with piercing insight and unrelenting optimism.
