God Bless You Joe Stalin: The Man who Saved Capitalism

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Algora Publishing, 2006 - 312 pages
Stalin has been accused of many things; add to the list his role as the father of modern-day economics. The author traces the evolution of the concept of the Almighty Dollar against the backdrop of the Cold War, demonstrates how individual decisions made

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Introduction
1
Chapter 1 Evolution of the Almighty Dollar
13
Chapter 2 The Amazing US Economy
43
A Different Portrait of Joe Stalin
59
Chapter 4 The Contradictions of State Socialism
87
The Truman Presidency
95
The Eisenhower Presidency
127
The Kennedy Presidency
165
The Nixon Presidency
209
The Presidencies of Ford and Carter
221
The Reagan Presidency
243
The George H W Bush Presidency
267
The Vanished Track
283
Appendix
297
Recommended Readings
305
Index
309

The Lyndon Johnson Presidency
189

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