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Recommended By Greg Lashutka:

"I suggest God and Gold, written by Walter Russell Mead as well as Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose. God and Gold is a well written book about the global contributions, occasional excess and leadership provided by England and the United States of America to the world. Undaunted Courage is a well written book about the Lewis and Clark Discovery Expedition. Both books provide examples of leadership in a variety of forms."
- Greg Lashutka

 

God and Gold by Walter Russell Mead

A stunningly insightful account of the global political and economic system, sustained first by Britain and now by America, that has created the modern world.

The key to the two countries' predominance, Mead argues, lies in the individualistic ideology inherent in the Anglo-American religion. Over the years Britain and America's liberal democratic system has been repeatedly challeged—by Catholic Spain and Louis XIV, the Nazis, communists, and Al Qaeda—and for the most part, it has prevailed. But the current conflicts in the Middle East threaten to change that record unless we foster a deeper understanding of the conflicts between the liberal world system and its foes. *Source Amazon.com

Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose

A biography of Meriwether Lewis that relies heavily on the journals of both Lewis and Clark, this book is also backed up by the author's personal travels along Lewis and Clark's route to the Pacific. Ambrose is not content to simply chronicle the events of the "Corps of Discovery" as the explorers called their ventures. He often pauses to assess the military leadership of Lewis and Clark, how they negotiated with various native peoples and what they reported to Jefferson. Though the expedition failed to find Jefferson's hoped for water route to the Pacific, it fired interest among fur traders and other Americans, changing the face of the West forever. *Sourse Amazon.com

 

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