III. Questions for the Bates book. Answers due to the reesassignments e-mail by 4/15/16.
1. According to Bates, what made Reagan’s rhetoric so successful?
2. Why did Reagan take a position on Vietnam after the war had ended?
3. How did Reagan’s rhetoric affect the public’s response to the Iran-Contra Scandal?
4. How did Reagan’s rhetoric affect his historical legacy?
5. Is Bates making too much over nothing in this book or is Reagan’s rhetoric a really important subject? Explain.
II. Questions for the Remnick book. Answers due to the reesassignments e-mail by 3/28/16.
1. Why begin the book by discussing two other boxers?
2. How did Ali’s race affect his early career?
3. What does Ali have to do with the Civil Rights Movement?
4. Exactly how did Ali manipulate the press?
5. Why does the book end so early in Ali’s career?
I. Questions for the Rees book. Answer due to the reesassignments e-mail by 2/12/16.
1 and 2. Explain the relationship between industrialization and two of the following other historical developments: The Labor Question, Immigration, Urbanization and/or the Closing of the Frontier.
3. If you had to name the most important person for determining the course of industrialization during this era, who would that be and why?
4. Why didn’t the government do more to mitigate the adverse effects of industrialization and to spread its benefits to a greater share of the population?
5. Could the harmful effects of industrialization on people have been mitigated by the private sector?
