Book Report on The Politics of Rich and Poor; Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath by Kevin Phillips The accusation that the rich got richer and the poor got ... of the Reagan administration during the 1980's. So to what extent are the Republicans responsible for the consequences of the Eighties? It depends on whom you ask. By reading Phillips book, it would seem obvious that the Reagan administration and the Republicans were responsible for poor policy that led to the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer; but lets ... to enable his policies. There were no p...

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... . With financial success came political involvement. In the 1930s, Joe Sr. became a major backer of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, making large donations to the Democratic Party and even penning a book, in 1936, entitled I'm for Roosevelt. Later, his support for some of Roosevelt's more radical fiscal policies cooled, but he remained an enthusiastic Democrat and a famous, if controversial, national figure, ... States naval and air quarantine would go into effect, preventing any further missile shipments from Russia to Cuba. He also demanded that the Soviets remove any and all nuc...

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... report must include an organized, clearly written answer to each of the questions. 1. What is the significance of the title? The name "Warrior Angels" was given by Lieutenant Carroll to American soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War. When soldiers are killed in action, they become "Fallen Angels." I think this title fits the book ... The only real thing was he a Peewee sitting in that hole waiting to be killed. His last attitudinal change is a sigh of relief. The book ends with him and Peewee on a plane back to the World tired and ready to finally go home. 3. React to what you have read...

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... over 100,000 people. Since Japan was economically and militarily devastated by the late summer of 1945, the use of the atomic bombs on an already overcome Japan was unnecessary and unwarranted in bringing about a conclusion to the war in the Pacific. By the end of the war, the U.S. ... necessary to end the war, which, in turn, would save lives of both American and Japanese soldiers. However, many believe that since Japan was already of the verge of surrender when the bombs were dropped, this argument cannot be morally validated. If Japan was almost beaten by August 1945, ... of the bomb...

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... nations. It was called the cold war because it did not really result in fighting. According to the article on the cold war in the World Book 2000 encyclopedia , on compact disc, the cold war began at the end of the second world war. It was symbolized by mutual distrust suspicion ... January 1961. It was at this time that the United States placed a trade embargo against Cuba. It was best put by historian John Lukas in his book, A History of the Cold War when he stated that On the other hand American prestige and power too suffered a general and, on occasion, astonishing erosion ... the re...

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... added the moral stigma and ignited the public's interest. There was no evidence that proved Nixon had misused the fund or given special favors to contributors. Nonetheless, Nixon's integrity was already in question and many of Eisenhower's advisers as well as many other politicians wanted Nixon to resign his candidacy. "Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell took to television to demand that ... political favor seekers. Nixon's attempts to cover up the conspiracy would consume the first year of his presidency. On March 2, 1972 Nixon ordered White House counsel John Dean to make a...

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... with the war by using his language to describe undescribables and it is a critique of American ideology as well. As a personal struggle, the book is a cathartic effort for Herr who disperses his pain of collected Vietnam memories on the last page with the dispelling chant, "Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam ... " [p. 260]. As a critique of American ideology, the book must be examined more closely. Using irony, first-hand accounts, and subjective interjections, Herr blasts through the detached, monolithic American view of the Vietnam ... as necessary for the betterment of those opposing people. Herr...

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... the leadership ranks are of those who wish to seek political assylum in the United States--though this is not disclosed until near the end of the book. The remainder of the crew are young and inexperienced and also include one Soviet Party member whose job it is to see that all orders are carried ... a system of deep water canals in the Atlantic on a course directly for the coast of the United States. As Jack Ryan, the key role played in the book, starts to analyze all of the data, he is given to thinking that the submarine is on a course to defect and not to start a neuclear war with .....

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... still insignificant in the eyes of world-class powers such as Britain and France, it still dreamed of an overseas empire rivaling that of Great Britain's. America's imperialist tendencies already were manifested in the subjugation of various Native American tribes and a key piece of legislation that would help determine US foreign policy for years to come and have repercussions to ... "bringer of freedom", would deny the Philippines any sovereignty, claiming the Filipinos were "unfit for self-government" and needed to be converted to Christianity despite the fact that most were already C...

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... write a letter to plead to President Franklin Roosevelt to support further research on the power of nuclear fission. This letter explained that Nazi scientists were already developing a way to purify Uranium-235 to use in an atomic bomb. Einstein's influence was a success and the Manhattan Project was established. ... unconditional surrender of Japan. Japan chose not to surrender at that time. Feelings of a British scientist P.M.S. Blackett were a bit different. He wrote a book titled Fear, War, and the Bomb, in which he said that the United States wanted to end the war with Japan prior...

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... Cuba to overthrow Castro was contrived. This secret operation was viewed as far less dangerous than a direct invasion by American troops. As the election of 1960 approached, the CIA had already made plans to overthrow Castro with the Cuban exiles. However, to the surprise of just about everyone, a young John F. Kennedy defeated favorite Richard Nixon by the slimmest of margins. Nonetheless ... wanting Kennedy dead. "I will smash the CIA into a thousand pieces", said Kennedy after the disaster at the Bay of Pigs. The President soon commissioned a report to see why the Cuban invasion had ...

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Book Report on The Politics of Rich and Poor; Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath by Kevin Phillips The accusation that the rich got richer and the poor got ... of the Reagan administration during the 1980's. So to what extent are the Republicans responsible for the consequences of the Eighties? It depends on whom you ask. By reading Phillips book, it would seem obvious that the Reagan administration and the Republicans were responsible for poor policy that led to the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer; but lets ... to enable his policies. There were no ...

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... began the devastating bombing campaign of Iraq and its forces in Kuwait. When the Allied armies launched the ground war on February 23, the Iraqi occupation forces in Kuwait were already beaten. Cut off from their supply bases and headquarters by the intense air campaign, thousands of Iraqi soldiers simply decide to give up rather than fight, as the Allies pushed ... thousands of Bosnian Muslim women, many of them only girls, have been raped. More than two million Bosnians are refugees or are in internal exile. The State Department's 1992 annual report on human rights stated that Serbia...

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... Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey (Kissinger, T L). The committee's task was to draw up a report on the planned European reconstruction program and to present it to the U.S. Government as a proposal (Hemmling, H D). The report, which was ready on September 22, 1947, proposed that a European reconstruction program should be carried out with the U.S. - limited to ... four years - and the participating countries cooperating closely in the economic field. "The report stated that the reconstruction of Europe should be achieved through the follow...

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... the United States. Zinn comes to the defense of almost every oppressed or subjugated group of people over the past 500 years. In his book, Zinn supplies countless primary source documents and quotations that compliment and support his contentions. Zinn view of history is often contrary to what is ... unions, which fought the employers for better wages and safer working conditions. For example, in 1877, the unsafe working conditions and a cut in their already low wages angered many railroad workers. During that year "there came a series of tumultuous strikes by railroad workers in a dozen ...

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... a wise decision in choosing the blockade. He supports Kennedy in every course of action that he took in the Cuban Missile Crisis. The International Relations book does not state its opinion on Kennedy's actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis because it is not allowed to be biased in any way. However, ... He was voted out of office two years later for schemes just like this one (Roskin, Berry 93). It was later learned that there were already nuclear warheads in Cuba. Just exactly when they arrived in Cuba is undetermined, but the outcome could have been far worse than it was. I ... bel...

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... the forefront: Stalin allowed the retreat from Marxism-Leninism. Nevertheless, the resolution, built on vague and contradictory arguments, failed to stop the centrifugal forces, unleashed by the reaction to the report of Khrushchev. Sharp aggravation of the Polish-Soviet relations in October 1956 after the election of the new leadership of the Polish communists, led by W. Gomulka, the revolution in Hungary ... people, it was clear that the death of the Hungarians and the Soviet people during the suppression of the Hungarian revolution in 1956 was the direct consequence of the Khrushchev...

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... that communism are threatening their lives, whether it exist in U.S. or outside U.S. The Bay of Pigs incident highlights such paranoia. According to Peter Kornbluh in his book, "Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba", Kennedy were fueled by strong conviction after he receives misleading information from CIA. He drafted an agenda for the Cuba hidden operation ... ...

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... Truman Doctrine may be a correct one but it is most certainly not the only opinion among authors and historians to date. Roger S. Whitcomb in his book argues that the Truman Doctrine needlessly harmed the United States and Soviet Union relations. Whitcomb among others argues that the Truman Doctrine was a poor decision on ... take. Harry Truman, a big advocate of the United Nations, acted by most accounts cautiously when it came to Berlin. Avi Shlaim wrote a book about the United States and the Berlin blockade where he defines why he thought Truman was cautious about Berlin. According to...

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... , which in some cases is similar to the identity, issues regarding educational expectations, and cultural conflict in America here in America for me. Reading the book I see Pham and the situations he is put in, also seeing myself, but the only difference is the way he and I handle the scenarios given ... of his identity he flies to Vietnam to ride his bike, and also to find his roots. As he first gets off the airplane he is already is immediately receiving dirty aware of others who looklooksat him disdainfully because he is a "viet-kieu" which means foreign Vietnamese. Then as he is ... ...

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... Nations (UN) and the agreements at Yalta became "the basis of the United Nations charter."" However, the essential disagreement remained with the focus on the future of Poland. Stalin had already established a pro-communist government, but only under the agreement that pro-Western poles would be allowed to cooperate in the Warsaw regime. Stalin also agreed to hold free elections in ... tension of the Cold War was in full effect and the threat of communist expansion was a serious danger to the Western world that must be destroyed. When the NSC-68 report was released in 1950, it argued th...

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Atomic Bomb This report is about the Atomic Bomb, what it demolished, and what were different opinions on the war. Of course there were many different opinions, ranging from we didn't have to do ... . But he never uttered the words no don't do it. Basically what he was trying to say was that Roosevelt and the people that knew about it before Truman were already making the decision. Many people ask if Japan was properly warned. People say that if Japan knew that the U.S would drop such a devastating bomb they would have surrendered right then ... ...

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... secret postmortem on the April 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion has been the holy grail of historians, students, and survivors of the failed invasion of Cuba. But the scathing internal report on the worst foreign policy debacle of the Kennedy administration, written by the CIA's then-inspector General Lyman Kirkpatrick, has remained tightly guarded. John F Kennedy was a good and tried to ... problem he would get stuck in. Many people now believe that it was right for Kennedy to pass away because America could have feel into a deeper hole then he was already in. Though we believe that Kennedy p...

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... dc. One of my favorite things I saw there was the Korean War memorial . After that moment I started to realize I really dont know alot about that war. SO I decided to my report on it. I learned alot more and here is the summarization of all of my knowledge on the Korean War The Korean War was the result of the division of Korea ... looked like they had never a battle field. In the first week of August the US had finally stopped North Korea's take over of the country but by that point they already had 90% of the country under their power. The US started to take over South Korea, the US h...

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... enormous debate over it. The decision to drop the Atom Bomb created a huge impact on Americans and forever changed the way that other nations view the United States. Gar Alperovitz's book, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, discusses many viewpoints of people involved with the decision before and after the bomb was dropped. This ... it very apparent that there were many more sides to this huge decision that what most books tell. Some of the main arguments in Alperovitz's book about the decision to drop the Atomic Bomb include whether or not it was really necessary, why an attack on ci...

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