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Flight of the Eagle
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A strategic history of the United States by the bestselling author of biographies of Roosevelt and Nixon
In this magisterial new history of the United States, spanning from the New World through the outcome of the 2012 presidential election, acclaimed writer and historian Conrad Black examines the rise of the world's supreme power, its recent decline, and its ultimate strengths and future, and the contributions of leading figures, including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, Harry S Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, and Ronald Reagan.
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Conrad Black is a former newspaper publisher whose company Hollinger International published The Daily Telegraph (UK), Chicago Sun-Times (U.S.), The Jerusalem Post (Israel), and The National Post (Canada). He is the author of several acclaimed works including his autobiography, A Life in Progress, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Champion of Freedom, and Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full. Black was born in Montreal and is now a British citizen.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A detailed look into the rise of the United States from its days as a colony to Barack Obama. Clears up alot of the myths and polarization of American politics and foreign policy. As a someone who gets a lot of his American History from TV and movies it clears up certain inaccuracies. Mr. Black is known in his columns for his fifty dollar words and the book is no different but the reader will definitely increase his vocabulary.