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Sto caricando le informazioni... Failures of the Presidents: From the Whiskey Rebellion and War of 1812 to the Bay of Pigs and War in Iraqdi Thomas J. Craughwell
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I tried to give a list of the Chapter headings here but the darn computer ate it before I could post. Sorry, but I've run out of the desire to give you, perhaps, a reason to buy/read this book. I also hope that you have better manners than AZBob1951; calling President Carter a 'dolt' is not helpful. ( ) A book packed with adjectives that urge the reader to believe that every American felt the way the Left-Wing authors did. Such as their "with graphic, almost stomach-turning photos." Writing about the Abu Ghraib prison, where women GI's forced Muslim prisoners to fit underwear to their heads. "Stomach-turning?" To whom? Anywhere they can leave out facts, such as they did with their chapter " 'A Splendid Little War' with Spain." Where, to make their point, that the Mexican-American War had no reason, failed to write that the Spanish had murdered 225,000 citizens of Cuba while they persecuted them and forced them into camps. I imagine this is the same anti-American, (especially anti-Republican party) Left-wing garbage, (you would not believe their defense of the dolt-peanut farmer Jimmy Carter) that is being taught in our public schools and that almost enabled a proclaimed socialist, Bernie Sanders, to become the Democrat nominee for President in 2016. I'm sure glad I picked up this brand new book at my Barnes & Noble clearance sale for only $1.80, not its $19.99 cover price. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
What were they thinking? * In an effort to put an end to Britain and France's policy of seizing American ships and sailors, Thomas Jefferson calls for an embargo. The Result: 30,000 sailors put out of work; mercantile families bankrupted overnight; a nationwide economic depression; and the New England states, which depended heavily on international commerce, threaten to secede from the Union. * To promote the doctrine of popular sovereignty, Franklin Pierce approves the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and permits residents of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether their territories will admit slavery. The Result: Dozens of settlers murdered; Lawrence, Kansas, burned and looted; John Brown elevated to the status of national hero among abolitionists; the country moves closer to civil war. * Convinced the 20,000 men, women, and children of the Bonus Army were Communists and criminals, Herbert Hoover sends 600 crack troops, a detachment of cavalry, and five tanks to drive the protesters out of Washington. The Result: 4 dead, including two infants; more than 1,000 injured; the Communist Party in America enjoys a public relations field day; Hoover is driven into political exile. * In an effort to install a capitalist government in the Middle East, stabilize the region, and protect America from a possible Iraqi terrorist assault using weapons of mass destruction, George W. Bush orders the invasion of Iraq. The Result: More than 4,000 American soldiers and personnel dead; estimated hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians dead; hundreds of billions of dollars spent; the torture of prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison and the failure to find weapons of mass destruction leave American global credibility in tatters. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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