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Bold Endeavors: How Our Government Built America, and Why It Must Rebuild Now
"Bold Endeavors" is a compelling narrative of ten large and transformative events in American history. It is an absorbing journey through the past as we read about determined national leaders -- Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, and Eisenhower -- who found the will, steadiness, and political acumen to make decisions that were often unpopular but that proved to be v...more
Hardcover, 272 pages
Published
February 24th 2009
by Simon & Schuster
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Overall I agree with the author's thesis, that government planning and spending has saved us from financial stagnation more than once, and that we wouldn't have reached the level of development we have reached without those bold moves, at times against great opposition and skepticism.
Certain chapters seemed almost prophetic. The debacle over the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in the Hoover-FDR era was entirely too familiar to somebody paying attention to the economic situation and stimulus e...more
Certain chapters seemed almost prophetic. The debacle over the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in the Hoover-FDR era was entirely too familiar to somebody paying attention to the economic situation and stimulus e...more
Too many anecdotes and patriotic nonsense. It offers a good history overview, but lacks the concrete citations I was hoping for.
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