Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream Currently serving his second term as the 44th president of the United States of America, Barrack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4th, 1961. After being published on October 17th, 2006, President Obamas book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, became a success right away becoming a best seller for both Amazon and the New York Times. Like some of the other texts read in The History of the Civil Rights, Obamas thesis in his work is not written in stone, yet his thesis is prevalent in the prologue of the book. Writing ““Recently, one of the reporters covering Capitol Hill stopped me on the way to my office and mentioned that she had enjoyed reading my first book. “I wonder she said, “if you can be that interesting in the next book you write.”
I appointed Frances Perkins as the Department of Labor because she had helped New York reform so well. There was a high rate of pressure not to fail because she was the first woman to hold a cabinet position in the United States, but Frances was very promising. I trusted all of the decisions threw at me. Another cabinet member that had a great influence during my presidency was Henry Morgenthau Jr. He played a major role in designing and financing the New Deal, and in preventing Germany from being a military power after the Allied victory that was influential of WWII.
Louis Brandies: He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jewish immigrant parents who raised him in a secular mode. He enrolled at Harvard Law School, graduating at the age of twenty with the highest grade average in the college’s history. He settled in Boston where he became a recognized lawyer through his work on progressive social causes. He later published a book entitled Other People's Money And How the Bankers Use It, suggesting ways of curbing the power of large banks and money trusts, which partly explains why he later fought against powerful corporations, monopolies, public corruption, and mass consumerism, all of which he felt were detrimental to American values and culture. W.E.B DuBois: An American sociologist, historian, civil
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Dinnerstein, Leonard, Evans, Eli. From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America American Jewish History. New York: George Braziller, 2004. This book brings together an eminent group of Judaic scholars who take stock of American Jewish life, from the arrival of the first small group in Manhattan in 1654 to the present. The book examines a wide range of topics, including the early history of the American Jewish community and the various significant phases of Jewish immigration, which saw the initial group of twenty-three, burgeon into a thriving community of several million by the early twentieth century.
While not "fully ascendant" in the GOP, suggested Will, Goldwaterism made a comeback at the 2004 convention, as evidenced in the "rapturous reception" of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, known for their unyielding opposition to terrorism and their tolerant views regarding abortion and gay rights. The reemergence of conservatism with a socially libertarian (but economically conservative) cast, Will wrote, could make the Grand Old Party more appealing to the many young suburban voters among whom the Democrats have made substantial gains.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30th, 1882 in Hyde Park, New York. He was born into a very wealthy family. They made their money through real estate and trade. He was the only child of James Roosevelt and Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt. At the age of 28, in 1910, Roosevelt was invited to run for the New York State senate.
Clinton took office at the end of the Cold War which made him the first president of the baby boomer generation. Throughout his political career Clinton has been described as a New Democrat. He is an alumnus of Georgetown University and earned a Rhodes scholarship to attend the University of Oxford. His wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, has served as the United States Secretary of State since 2009 and was also a Senator from New York. Both Clintons received law degrees from Yale Law School.
In a speech given in New Orleans, Louisiana, Republican candidate John McCain emphasized his party’s belief in less government interaction in American citizens’ everyday lives. The speech shed some light on the differences between his and Barack Obama’s views. He backed up his argument through many different methods such as appealing to emotions, character, and needs of the listener. John McCain stated, “Like others before him (Barack Obama), he seems to think government is the answer to every problem; that government should take our resources and make our decisions for us.” This quote was clearly used to develop an emotional connection between McCain and his audience. By using the word “our” he undermines Obama’s view on strong government
Jillian Taft AP Government Mr. Hardin Is the Media Biased? Health Law is Dividing Republican Governors | This editorial was written by Jonathan Martin of the New York Times. Martin reveals the Republican Governors will use the fiasco of The Affordable Care Act in Washington DC to their advantage while running for reelection. He explained this in a neutral manner, however, the author then takes a biased turn never returning to a neutral position. The article has a left leaning feel to it because of the negative implications about the Republican Party falling apart as a whole.
Clinton defined himself as a centrist Democrat in his 1992 campaign in part by promising to "end welfare as we know it." After the Republican takeover of Congress, he fended off certain GOP welfare provisions but ultimately signed a bill that liberal members of Congress considered much too cruel to the poor. In another notable reversal, it is generally liberals who champion social engineering – and conservatives who scoff at the idea that government should try to change individual behavior. Now it is conservatives who most strongly support certain welfare rules, including the family cap and a requirement that most teenage parents live with their own parents in