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=Chapter 34: The Age of Globalization=

** Main Ideas: **

 * 1) The economic successes, foreign policy achievements, and personal foibles of Bill Clinton, and how he managed to remain relatively popular despite a Republican resurgence and reaction against him.
 * 2) That fundamental economic changes that led to the "dot.com" boom of the 1990's and the creation of a two-tiered economy, in which the affluent and educated of all races prospered while the lower classes got further behind.
 * 3) The history of the digital revolution, and its effects on the segmentation of American culture.
 * 4) The important immigration and demographic changes that occurred in the 1980's and 1990's, and the "culture wars" such changes spawned.
 * 5) The continued domestic problems facing America in the global age, including drug addiction, homelessness, AIDS, environmental hazards, and a deprived underclass.
 * 6) The economic transformations and political protests occasioned by globalization.
 * 7) The dramatic events of September 11, 2001 on American foreign policy and self-perception