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...After you've had every other freedom -- the four that Roosevelt enunciated -- the last hobble on your freedom is religion. We saw it in the '60s in the hippie movement, when tens of thousands of young people quite purposely emancipated themselves from ordinary rules...
Aside from these current issues, most of Bundy's book addresses the high-level decisions that led to the present global nuclear situation. His explanations are thorough and readily accessable to the uninformed reader. From Roosevelt and Truman's earliest decisions to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bundy challenges old and recent theories answering the why and how of these events...
...people embarking on a crusade of good works -- has always held romantic appeal for adults safely beyond draft age. Utopian visionary Edward Bellamy originally broached the notion more than a century ago. Philosopher William James alluded to it in his famous 1910 essay, "The Moral Equivalent of War." Franklin Roosevelt in 1943 spoke of a postwar America where young adults would make a "year's contribution of service to the Government." At the height of the Viet Nam buildup, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara proposed compulsory national service as a remedy for the inequities of the military draft. Now, amid...
...after naval service and stints at three colleges, Doss returned to Bridgeport with a wife, family, and a B.A. from Roosevelt University in Chicago. All went well until his daughter Daria began to speak of many friends dropping out of Bridgeport high schools...
That Reagan believed in his spiel, and in himself, more fully than do most politicians enhanced his credibility. Though he has been living like gentry for nearly 40 years, his geniality kept him in touch with the folks. "Having been a Roosevelt Democrat was an asset," Neustadt observes. "Though he turned far to the right, he never became a three-piece-suit, business Republican." Instead he became something new under the Republican sun, a smile-button conservative who persuaded voters that less taxation meant more prosperity, that less government facilitated the pursuit of happiness. And he taught the Washington establishment...