Is the “American Dream” still alive in the 21st century?

Brands, Chapter 14:  Blowback, 2000-2004

  • Bush 5, Gore 4 (pp. 341-43)
  • That Old-Time Religion (pp. 344-45)
  • September 11 (pp. 346-350)
  • A New Kind of War (pp. 350-54)
  • Strike One, Strike Two (pp. 354-59)
  • The Road to Baghdad (pp. 359-61)
  • The Morning After (361-66)

Brands, Chapter 15:  Still Dreaming, 2005-2010

  • The Changing Climate of Climate Change (pp. 367-70)
  • The Golden Door –And a Concrete Wall? (pp. 371-73)
  • Wired (pp. 373-75)
  • Shades of the Thirties (pp. 376-78)
  • Dreams of His Father (pp. 378-80)
  • Franklin Delano Obama? (pp. 380-83)
  • Still Dreaming (pp. 383-85)

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9-11

George W. Bush Years

The Bush Team

Bush, Cheney, Rummy

From L to R: Don Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney

 

Powell

Secretary of State Colin Powell at the UN in 2003

Yoo

White House lawyer, John Yoo, one of the authors of the “Torture Memos” in 2002

Bush and Rice

Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice with President George W. Bush

Barack Obama Years

Obama

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