Part one of term paper
Historian William Berman's reads like a case study of separation between liberalism and conservatism in American politics. The backdrop against which the study in politics is set is the American economy. Berman contends that America's liberal welfare state politics, instituted by Franklin Roosevelt, were not effective in dealing with 1970s ...

Part two of term paper
... and development favoring the poor. Ironically, he points out that this same inefficacy with regard to cultural and economic crises that allowed Reagan and Bush to come to office, was similar to the inefficacy of the Bush administration which allowed Bill Clinton to gain the presidency, one which declared "It's the economy, stupid" in its first term and promised "The end of big government" in its second. Berman contends that Clinton could not find a viable political alternative to the GOP and even ...