Rohatyn Felix G. Bold Endeavors: How Our Government Built America, and Why It Must Rebuild Now 9781416533139

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Автор: Rohatyn Felix G.
Название: Bold Endeavors: How Our Government Built America, and Why It Must Rebuild Now
ISBN: 9781416533139
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Классификация:

История Америк

Политика и политический строй

Политика центрального правительства

Политэкономия

Финансы

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ISBN-10: 1416533133
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 272
Вес: 0.40 кг.
Дата издания: 02.04.2011
Язык: English
Размер: 154 x 228 x 23
Поставляется из: США
Описание: In this timely and urgent book, Rohatyn re-creates some of the most dramatic events in our history to show how strong and imaginative political leadership built America and demonstrates that such leadership is essential today to reverse the catastrophic degeneration of Americas infrastructure, bridges, tunnels, roads and rails, flood levees and gates. Readers of David McCullough and Stephen Ambrose will revel in his narrative. Although the private sector has been the mainstay of Americas economy, Felix Rohatyn argues the country could not have grown into its full destiny without the vision and determination of political leaders who imagined the future and acted to achieve it.

He begins with the Louisiana Purchase by Thomas Jefferson in 1805, which doubled the size of the country, and the construction of the Erie Canal in 1817-1825, which opened a water route to the West. The chartering of the Trans-Continental railroad, the Land Grant Colleges, and the Homestead Act in 1863, led by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, together opened the continent. The Panama Canal, which joined the east and West coasts by sea, was driven by Theodore Roosevelt. FDRs Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and Eisenhowers Interstate Highway program modernized America, and the GI Bill of rights, which came after World War II, remains the greatest investment in intellectual capital and housing in our history.

Rohatyn describes these enterprises as examples of the imagination and decisive leadership that the country is in desperate need of, and, in a final chapter, he predicts the multiple benefits of similarly bold undertakings to secure our nations future and offers a blueprint for setting priorities and financing them.

Bold Endeavors: How Our Government Built America, and Why It Must Rebuild Now, Rohatyn Felix G.