Bibliograph

These United States, a nation in the making, 1890 to the present, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Thomas J. Sugrue

Type

Label

These United States, a nation in the making, 1890 to the present, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Thomas J. Sugrue

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

mapsplatesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

These United States

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

902661314

Responsibility statement

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Thomas J. Sugrue

Sub title

a nation in the making, 1890 to the present

Summary

In a sweeping history of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power, two acclaimed historians provide insightful accounts of the century's largest events—war, prosperity and depression—astute leadership and arrogant power and the rise and decline of broad middle class, showing just how far U.S. democracy has come

Table Of Contents

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

Target audience

general

Classification