...past fifty years that help to shape the United States. These events have brought good and hard times to the United States Politically. Huge contributions were contributed to the American society every decade by the past leaders. These Contributions has help mode the United States into what it is today. There has been a great deal of wars fought by this country for its civil rights and people. After the many battles and wars that the United States endured, the United States never let their dreams die. Many of their dreams came true, many of their dreams failed due to different programs and policies from our former leaders of America. For instance, the Watergate Scandal in the 1970s was one of the great events that became memorable. The drastic tax cut in the 80’s by President Ronald Reagan also became memorable. Almost every president in the United States past has left some sort of significant legacies with their leadership in some sort of way. The leaders that made mistakes also help to shape the country to what it is today because of their past mistake. Their past mistakes help to create a solution for success further down the road. Our education, businesses, homes, and families were affected through our past leaders decisions. Through it all the success and failures the country remains strong. The 1950’s- The Rise of the Cold War The Cold War was a time when the nations were fighting each other and wanted nothing more than to take each other lives...
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...CHAPTER THREE: Our Constitution CHAPTER FOUR: Politics CHAPTER FIVE: Opportunity CHAPTER SIX: Faith CHAPTER SEVEN: Race CHAPTER EIGHT: The World Beyond Our Borders CHAPTER NINE: Family Epilogue Acknowledgments About the Author Also by Barack Obama Copyright Prologue IT’S BEEN ALMOST ten years since I first ran for political office. I was thirty-five at the time, four years out of law school, recently married, and generally impatient with life. A seat in the Illinois legislature had opened up, and several friends suggested that I run, thinking that my work as a civil rights lawyer, and contacts from my days as a community organizer, would make me a viable candidate. After discussing it with my wife, I entered the race and proceeded to do what every first-time candidate does: I talked to anyone who would listen. I went to block club meetings and church socials, beauty shops and barbershops. If two guys were standing on a corner, I would cross the street to hand them campaign literature. And everywhere I went, I’d get some version of the same two questions. “Where’d you get that funny name?” And then: “You seem like a nice enough guy. Why do you want to go into something dirty and nasty like politics?” I was familiar with the question, a variant on the questions asked of me years earlier, when I’d first arrived in Chicago to work in low-income neighborhoods. It signaled a cynicism not simply with politics but with the very notion of a public life, a cynicism that—at least in the...
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