Seth's review
America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II): From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom (America: the Last Best Hope)
by William J. Bennett
Seth's review
America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II): From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom (America: the Last Best Hope) by William J. Bennett
Seth's review
rating:
I was surprised at the clarity of William Bennett's second volume history of the United States. Bennett does not participate in any of the current historiographical debates such post-modern history or bottom-up history. That is a plus. He studies the great characters of American and Anglo-European history. He especially focuses on Churchill, Helmut Kohl, and Margaret Thatcher in the European theatre. His work is not Carlylian hero worship, but well balanced. I am impressed with his knowledge of key civil rights leaders commonly left out of mainstream textbooks.
