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Media type:
Book
Title:
These United States
:
a nation in the making, 1890 to the present
Contains:
Preface: "We are still in the making"Origins of the American century -- "To start to make this world over": imperialism and Progressivism, 1898-1912 -- Refining and exporting Progressivism: Wilson's New Freedom and the Great War, 1913-1919 -- Prosperity's precipice: the paradoxes of the 1920s -- A twentieth-century president: Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first term, 1932-1936 -- A rendezvous with destiny, 1936-1941 -- The watershed of war: at home and abroad, 1942-1945 -- A rising superpower, 1944-1954 -- In at least modest comfort: postwar prosperity and its discontents -- A season of change: liberals and the limits of reform, 1960-1966 -- May day: Vietnam and the crisis of the 1960s -- What side are you on?: the battle for middle America, 1968-1974 -- "A season of darkness": the troubled 1970s -- The new Gilded Age, 1980-2000 -- United we stand, divided we fall, since 2000.
Footnote:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
Preface: "We are still in the making" -- Origins of the American century -- "To start to make this world over": imperialism and Progressivism, 1898-1912 -- Refining and exporting Progressivism: Wilson's New Freedom and the Great War, 1913-1919 -- Prosperity's precipice: the paradoxes of the 1920s -- A twentieth-century president: Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first term, 1932-1936 -- A rendezvous with destiny, 1936-1941 -- The watershed of war: at home and abroad, 1942-1945 -- A rising superpower, 1944-1954 -- In at least modest comfort: postwar prosperity and its discontents -- A season of change: liberals and the limits of reform, 1960-1966 -- May day: Vietnam and the crisis of the 1960s -- What side are you on?: the battle for middle America, 1968-1974 -- "A season of darkness": the troubled 1970s -- The new Gilded Age, 1980-2000 -- United we stand, divided we fall, since 2000