Jack Kemp: The Bleeding-Heart Conservative Who Changed America
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THE PURPOSE OF POLITICS IS NOT TO DEFEAT YOUR OPPONENT AS MUCH AS IT IS TO PROVIDE SUPERIOR LEADERSHIP AND BETTER IDEAS THAN THE OPPOSITION. -JACK KEMP The late 1970s were miserable for America. It was the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate era, a time of high unemployment, ruinous inflation, gasoline lines, Communist advances, and bottomed-out U.S. morale. In the 1980s, it all turned around: stagflation ended and nearly two decades of prosperity ensued. The Soviet Union retreated, then collapsed. America again believed in itself. And around the world, democratic capitalism was deemed the end of history. Ronald Reagan's policies sparked the American renaissance, but the Gipper's leadership is only part of the story. The economic theory that underpinned America's success was pioneered by a star professional quarterback turned self-taught intellectual and bleeding-heart conservative: Jack Kemp. Kemp's role in a pivotal period in American history is at last illuminated in this first-ever biogr
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1591847435
ISBN13:9781591847434
Release Date:September 2015
Publisher:Sentinel
Length:400 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 12 and higher
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