We Can All Do Better (24 page)

Chace, James.
1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs—The Election that Changed the Country
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Chernow, Ron.
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
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Coles, Robert.
The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination
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Crunden, Robert Morse.
Ministers of Reform: The Progressives' Achievement in American Civilization, 1889–1920
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DeTocqueville, Alexis.
Democracy in America, Volumes I and II
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Dreiser, Theodore.
An American Tragedy
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Eisenhower, Dwight.
Eisenhower's Farewell Address to the Nation
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
Self Reliance
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Engler, Robert.
Brotherhood of Oil: Energy Policy and the Public Interest
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Fiedler, Leslie A.
Love and Death in the American Novel
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Fischer, David Hackett.
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
(America: A Cultural History).

Fitzgerald, F. Scott.
The Great Gatsby
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Galbraith, John Kenneth.
The Great Crash 1929
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Goodwin, Doris Kearns.
Team of Rivals
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Greenstein, Fred I.
The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader
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Heilbroner, Robert L.
The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
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Hofstadter, Richard.
The Age of Reform
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Jay, John, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison.
The Federalist Papers
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Jensen, Richard J., William H. Lyon, Philip Reed Rulon, eds.
Great Speeches in American History
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Kean, Thomas H. and Lee Hamilton.
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
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Kennan, George F.
American Diplomacy
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Kindleberger, Charles P.
Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
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Korda, Michael.
Ike: An American Hero
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Lewis, Michael.
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
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Limerick, Patricia Nelson.
The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
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Link, Arthur Stanley.
Woodrow Wilson: Revolution, War, and Peace
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Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era
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Wilson
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Malcolm X.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Maclean, Norman.
A River Runs Through It
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McCullough, David G.
John Adams
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———.
Truman
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McMurtry, Larry.
Lonesome Dove: A Novel
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McPhee, John.
Coming into the Country
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The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor
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Uncommon Carriers
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McPherson, Harry.
A Political Education: A Washington Memoir
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McPherson, James M.
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
(Oxford History of the United States).

Melville, Herman.
Moby Dick
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Miller, Arthur.
Death of a Salesman
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Miller, Merle.
Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman
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Mitford, Jessica.
American Way of Death
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Morgan, Ted.
FDR: A Biography
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Morgenson, Gretchen.
Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
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Morrison, Toni.
Beloved
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Nichols, John Treadwell.
The Milagro Beanfield War
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Okimoto, Daniel I.
American in Disguise.

Schlesinger, Arthur Meier.
The Age of Jackson
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The Cycles of American History
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Sherwood, Robert E.
Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History
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Smith, Jean Edward.
FDR
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Sorensen, Theodore C.
Kennedy: The Classic Biography
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Stegner, Wallace.
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
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Steinbeck, John.
The Grapes of Wrath
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Twain, Mark.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Updike, John.
Rabbit, Run
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Rabbit Is Rich
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Rabbit at Rest
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U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency.
The Pecora Report: The 1934 Report on the Practices of Stock Exchanges from the “Pecora Commission.”

Vidal, Gore.
Lincoln: A Novel
(American Chronicle Series).

Warren, Earl.
Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
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Whitman, Walt.
The Complete Poems
(Penguin Classics).

Wills, Garry.
Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
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Adams, John,
7
,
153

Adams, John Quincy,
106

Affirmative action,
97

Afghanistan,
77
,
100
,
113
,
114
,
115
,
127
,
133

African Americans,
76
,
135
,
138

Agricultural Adjustment Act,
95

Al Qaeda,
71
,
132

Albania,
114

Allende, Salvador,
112

Alpert, Daniel,
19

America

and achievement and mobility,
7
,
75–80
,
85

and citizenship,
120–121

decline of,
155

foreign investment in,
81–83

humanity of its people,
64–71

and other nations,
5–6
,
105–133
,
157

and problems,
1–2

and strengths,
7

and taking control of future,
155–161

and talent and immigration from overseas,
117–121

America the Vulnerable: Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime and Warfare
(Brenner),
130

American dream,
11
,
80
,
103

American Idol
(television show),
127

American Independent Party,
147

American Revolution,
42
,
43

American Voices
(radio show),
64–71

Americans Elect,
148–152

Americans with Disabilities Act,
13
,
66–67

Anderson, John,
147
,
151

Angola,
112

Aristotle,
41

Ashoka: Innovators for the Public,
73
,
89

Australia,
124
,
127

Austria,
106

Automobile companies,
26
,
80
,
81
,
82

Baby boomers,
118

Baker, James,
99
,
100

Bangladesh,
124

Bankrupt: Entitlements and the Federal Budget
(Tanner),
31–32

Bankruptcies,
33
,
34

Banks,
136

and bailouts,
18
,
47

and derivatives,
56–57

and Dodd–Frank,
59

and Glass–Steagall,
54–55
,
95

and Great Depression,
91
,
94
,
95

and housing,
19
,
21
,
23
,
57
,
58
,
78

and lending,
17
,
18
,
19

and major crises,
20

and subprime mortgages,
57

and taxes,
37

Barker, Molly,
67–68

Bay of Pigs,
112

Benkler, Yochai,
72

Berger, Suzanne,
83

Bin Laden, Osama,
114

Birth rates,
118
,
119

Black, Hugo,
50

Bosnia,
65

Boston Consulting Group,
82

BP,
61

Bradley, Bill

and
American Voices
,
64–71

and budget balancing exercise of former U.S. senators,
40–41

and constituents,
ix–xi

grandfather of,
160

parents of,
xi

as presidential candidate,
16
,
64

and September 11 attacks,
70

as U.S. senator,
13
,
35
,
37–38
,
47
,
54
,
139–140
,
141
,
143

Brazil,
5
,
29
,
115
,
121
,
123

Bremner, Linda,
68–69

Brenner, Joel,
130

Bretton Woods,
29

Brittany (girl),
67–68

Bronner, Ethan,
11

Brown vs. Board of Education
,
50

Buckley vs. Valeo
,
49
,
50
,
60

Buffett, Warren,
58

Bull Moose Party,
147

Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S.,
83

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S.,
88

Burma,
124

Burton, Harold,
50

Bush, George H. W.

and government,
99

and Iraq,
113

and 1992 election,
147

as vice president,
98

and Washington knives and press,
13

Bush, George W.,
149

and Albania,
114

and government,
100

and leverage,
58

and September 11 attacks,
114

and transportation bill,
26

and 2000 election,
147

Caesar, Julius,
42
,
43
,
45

Campaign finance and spending,
141

and corporations,
49
,
51
,
60–62

and financial industry,
54

and hedging bets and compromising beliefs,
157

increase in,
47–48

laws,
146
,
151

and lobbyists,
48

and Obama,
147–148

and reform,
48
,
50
,
59–62
,
156

and Supreme Court,
49–51
,
60

and third parties,
146

and Unity08 and Americans Elect,
148–149
,
150
,
151

Canada,
6
,
39
,
152

CareerBuilder,
76

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
26

Carranza, Venustiano,
109

Carter, Jimmy,
113

Catholic Church,
3

CBS Sunday Morning
(television show),
15

CDOs,
56–57

CDSs,
57

Census Bureau,
76

Center for Responsive Politics,
49

Central America,
113