Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Fixing the Left’s History Distortions by Loredana Vuoto

"Bill Bennett’s America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II) picks up where he left off with the first volume of his series on American history. Bennett begins with the events leading up to World War I and takes the reader through many of the seminal periods of the 20th Century, including the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, Watergate and finally the collapse of communism. Bennett’s great strength is that he writes for the average reader, crisply depicting some of America’s greatest accomplishments in difficult times.

The author of the bestseller The Book of Virtues and Education secretary under Ronald Reagan and director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under George H.W. Bush, Bennett wants to recapture the beauty, goodness and hope that embody America. He believes Abraham Lincoln was right when he described our country “as the last best hope of Earth.” Despite the recent wave of anti-Americanism both domestically and abroad, Bennett wants Americans, as he said in his first volume, “to fall in love with their country, again or for the first time.” "

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