Author Bill Loughrey
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POLITICAL WILL: A NEW VIEW
A new and provocative analysis of American history identifies the
astonishing sets of ideas and events that came together in a burst of
political will to create the United States of America.
A new and provocative analysis of American history identifies the
astonishing sets of ideas and events that came together in a burst of
political will to create the United States of America.
Political Will’s author, Bill Loughrey — an authority on U.S. historical
development, and long involved in the private sector, federal service,
and the non-profit sector — shows how the innovative spirit of the early
Americans paved the way in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for
breathtaking advances in science, technology, and living standards. Wave
after wave of revolutionary change created much of the wealth we now
possess and was responsible in the twentieth century for the American
victories in World Wars I and II and the Cold War.
Loughrey describes how for 200 years Americans have collectively
determined sets of values and how the will of the people was transmitted
into political action that caused our culture to prosper and our union
of 13 small colonies to grow into a world superpower.
Although public opinion exerts enough political action today that
continues U.S. innovation and nurtures a civil society which addresses
human problems, the energetic system of values utilized by our
forefathers has become weak. As a result, America and Western
civilizations find themselves in eclipse; with Asia and Islam becoming
ascendant, we are thus engaged today in a global struggle to maintain
our way of life.
The challenges facing the American colonists — developing a democratic
civilization to address the failures of European monarchies, converting
from an agricultural to an industrial economy, and incorporating wave
after wave of immigrants — were similar in complexity and no less
daunting than the problems confronting us today: globalization, an
explosion of new technology, global warming, a fierce fight over
cultural values, and converting from an industrial-age to an
information-age economy.
With a panoramic perspective on history and current events, this book
shows in detail what went wrong and — if Americans can again exert their
revolutionary political will — suggests how the United States can get
back on track.
Bill Loughrey’s experience ranges from business to government, and from
politics to the nonprofit sector. He has started up a half dozen small
businesses and worked as a senior executive for a Fortune 500 company.
Bill worked first in the U.S. House of Representatives on the Watergate
reforms and then as chief of staff to Senator Arlen Specter. In his
early government service he directed the staff of a federal regulatory
agency. He has been involved in more than a hundred political
campaigns. Bill served on boards of many community and non-profit
organizations. He lives in Milton, Georgia, with his wife and have two
children.
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