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Bold Endeavors: How Our Government Built America, And Why It Must Rebuild Now

by Felix Rohatyn
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Bold Endeavors: How Our Government Built America, And Why It Must Rebuild Now
Bold Endeavors: How Our Government Built America, And Why It Must Rebuild Now

Big public works, big American possibilities

This is a stirring read if you like history with a clear argument about the present. Rohatyn makes infrastructure feel dramatic, showing how canals, railroads, highways, and public policy helped shape the country in ways we often take for granted. It feels especially satisfying for readers who enjoy sweeping American history but also want a sharp, persuasive case for what government can still achieve now.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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by Felix Rohatyn
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ISBN: 9781416533139
Authors: Felix Rohatyn
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date of Publication: 2011-05-07
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Politics, Economics, History
Related Topics: History, American History, Finance, Government, Politics, Political Science, World History, Presidents
Goodreads rating: 4.0
(rated by 52 readers)

Description

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 degeneration of America’s 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 America’s economy, Rohatyn argues the country could not have reached its full potential without the vision and determination of political leaders who imagined the future and acted to achieve it. He begins with the Louisiana Purchase, in 1803, which doubled the size of the country, and the Erie Canal (constructed 1817–25), which opened a water route to the West. The Transcontinental Railroad, the Morrill Act establishing land‑grant colleges, and the Homestead Act in the 1860s, led by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, together helped open the continent. The Panama Canal, which joined the east and West coasts by sea, was driven by Theodore Roosevelt. FDR’s Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway program modernized America, and the GI Bill after World War II remains one of the greatest investments in intellectual capital and housing in our history. Rohatyn describes these undertakings as examples of imagination and decisive leadership that the country needs today, and, in a final chapter, he outlines the benefits of similarly bold investments to secure our nation’s future and offers a blueprint for setting priorities and financing them.
 

Big public works, big American possibilities

This is a stirring read if you like history with a clear argument about the present. Rohatyn makes infrastructure feel dramatic, showing how canals, railroads, highways, and public policy helped shape the country in ways we often take for granted. It feels especially satisfying for readers who enjoy sweeping American history but also want a sharp, persuasive case for what government can still achieve now.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.