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A Bubble in Time - America During the Interwar Years, 1989-2001 (Hardcover, New)
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A Bubble in Time - America During the Interwar Years, 1989-2001 (Hardcover, New)
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The all-too-brief period of relative tranquility that extended from
the end of the Cold War to the beginning of the War on Terror is
the subject of William L. O'Neill's brilliant new study of recent
American history. Mr. O'Neill's sharp eye for the telling incident
and the apt quotation combine with an acute historical judgment to
make A Bubble in Time a compellingly readable informal history. The
first Gulf War and President Clinton's interventions abroad
notwithstanding, American spirits were freer from fear than they
had been since the 1920s, the author argues. No world war loomed
before the United States, and after the Berlin Wall came down the
specter of nuclear annihilation faded as well. A brief recession in
the 1990s gave way to the most prosperous years Americans had known
for decades. Unlike in the 1980s under Ronald Reagan, the increase
in national wealth trickled down to the middle class thanks to an
unusual rise in productivity and large infrastructure investments
by firms in the "new economy." To general amazement, crime rates
began falling after almost thirty years of increases, so that
Americans were happier, safer, and materially better off than
before. Although the Republican party turned to the dark side, Mr.
O'Neill writes, peace and prosperity enabled people to enjoy the
finer things in life and to lavish their concerns on political
correctness, the decline of the military, the troubles of higher
education, and the manifestations of an out-of-control popular
culture he calls "Tabloid Nation" the trials of O.J. Simpson and
President Clinton, SUVs, cell phones, and bimbo eruptions. Mr.
O'Neill explores them all, and more, with insight and wit. "It was
all too good to last," he tells us. "Reality intruded again with
the dot.com crash in 2000 and the terrorist attacks of 2001. Still,
we will always have Paris Hilton." With 8 pages of black-and-white
photographs."
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