Can I read Bold Endeavors : How Our Government Built America, and Why It Must Rebuild Now on EtoBox?

Bold Endeavors : How Our Government Built America, and Why It Must Rebuild Now by Felix G. Rohatyn is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Bold Endeavors : How Our Government Built America, and Why It Must Rebuild Now about?

Bold Endeavors is a compelling narrative of ten large and transformative events in American history. It is an absorbing journey through the past as we read about determined national leaders -- Jefferson, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, and Eisenhower -- who found the will, steadiness, and political acumen to make decisions that were often unpopular but that proved to be visionary -- decisions that are the building blocks of America's destiny. Rohatyn begins with the diplomatic intrigues of the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the size of the country; moves to the controversial construction of the Erie Canal, which opened a water route to the West; then continues to Lincoln's resolute support for the transcontinental railroad, Land Grant colleges, and the Homestead Act; documents the strategy -- and ruthless determination -- that built the Panama Canal; details the visionary and pragmatic politics that allowed FDR to bring electricity to rural America and use the Reconstruction Finance Act to help pull the country from the grip of the Depression; captures the foresight of national purpose which led to the G.I. Bill, which propelled the nation forward; and describes the creation of t

Author

Felix G. Rohatyn

Publisher

Simon & Schuster, Incorporated

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781416533139

Subjects

Political Science, Finance, History