America The Last Best Hope; Volume II: From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom

Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2007. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xvi, 592 pages. Illustrations. Footnote. Notes. Index. Bookplate signed by the author on fep. William John Bennett (born July 31, 1943) is an American conservative, politician, and political theorist, who served as Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan. He also held the post of Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under George H. W. Bush. Bennett is a member of the National Security Advisory Council of the Center for Security Policy (CSP). He was co-director of Empower America and was a Distinguished Fellow in Cultural Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Long active in United States Republican Party politics, he is now an author, speaker, and, from April 5, 2004 through April 1, 2016, the host of the weekday radio program Morning in America on the Dallas, Texas-based Salem Communications. In addition to his radio show, he was the Washington Fellow of the Claremont Institute. He was also a political analyst for CNN until 2013. In "America: The Last Best Hope, Volume II," renowned historian and educator William J. Bennett continues his acclaimed history of the United States. Covering the period from World War I to the Reagan Era, this new book is a lively account of the tumultuous decades that saw America become a world power, face down Nazi and Communist tyranny, and stand today against the global Islamic jihad as the world's last, best hope to defend freedom. In this large and sweeping volume Bennett draws upon a breathtaking array of sources in order to bring you inside the momentous history of the twentieth and early twenty-first century. He recounts numerous insider details that cast familiar historical events in a new light, from former President Theodore Roosevelt's World War I meeting with President Wilson in which he pleaded to be given the authority to lead a regiment to Ronald Reagan's confiding what he regretted most about losing the 1976 Republican Presidential nomination to Gerald Ford.