NYT Books in Review: “High Wire,” “The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire”
High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families, by Peter Gosselin
“Setbacks like a serious illness or losing a job are now more likely to mean an ecnomic disaster…Gosselin tells hair-raising stories of arbitrary job loss and evaporating retirement funds.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/books/review/Chotiner-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print
The Last Thousand Day of the British Empire: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana, by Peter Clarke
“In the 1940s, British control was ending in India and Palestine, and the United States had no intention of saving it…Defeat would have brought about the end of the British Empire. But…’so did victory’.”
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