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Gerstle likes another dissident from neoliberlism, Bernie Sanders, a lot more than he does Buchanan. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era: Gerstle, Gary. Gerstle simply despises Patrick Buchanan: for example, he notes that Buchanan worried that NAFTA meant "tough hearty [white] men" (151) would lose their jobs. [Extracted from the article]

Although the US military tried to maintain segregation overseas, Guglielmo shows that the welcome that minority soldiers received from locals overseas, the friendships they developed with White soldiers, and their activism blurred racial lines. Thomas Guglielmo aims to correct the myth, widespread in popular culture, that unity characterized US military forces in World War II. This did not stop civil rights leaders from lobbying to end segregation in the military, and Guglielmo shows that the resistance of Black soldiers helped their efforts. [Extracted from the article]