Full Description
America's past is full of politics as well as personal stories. That's the way it happened: real people with real stories. Through short narratives from political figures' lives, you'll discover how our nation grew from a colonial project to an international superpower. Along the way, you'll find the human dimension emphasized with the stories of men and women of different regional, socioeconomic, and ethnic backgrounds described in colorful detail.
Contents
24. Aftermath25. Patronage and Pork: National Politics 1876-1892.26. Technology, Industry, and Business: Economic Change in the Late Nineteenth Century.27. Living with Leviathan: Coping with Big Business and Great Wealth.28. We Who Built America: Working People 1860-1900.29. Big Cities: Urban America 1865-1917.30. The Last Frontier: Winning and Losing the West 1865-1900.31. The Nation's Bone and Sinew: Agriculture and Agrarians 1865-1896.32. A Pivotal Decade: McKinley, Segregation, and Empire 1890-1901.33. Teddy Roosevelt's Americans: The Middle Class Comes of Age 1890-1917.34. A Wave of Reform: The Progressives 1890-1916.35. Imperialism and Domestic Politics: A Progressive Democratic President 1901-1916.36. Over There: The United States and World War I 1914-1918.37. Over Here: The Home Front 1917-1920.38. A Troubled Nation: Postwar America 1919-1923.39. The New Era: When Business Ran the Country 1923-1929.40. Hard Times: The Great Depression 1930-1933.41. Rearranging America: FDR and the New Deal 1933-1938.42. Going to War Again: America and the World 1933-1942.43. Finest Hours: The U.S. in the Second World War 1942-1945.44. The Bomb" and the Cold War: The Truman Presidency, 1945-1953.45. "Happy Days": The Popular Culture of the Fifties 1947-1963.46. Political Strategies: The Eisenhower and Kennedy Presidencies 1953-1963.47. Race and Rights: The African American Struggle for Civil Equality 1953-1968.48. Lyndon Johnson's Great Society: A War Destroys a Reformer 1961-1968.49. Presidents on the Griddle: Nixon, Ford, and Carter 1968-1980.50. Morning in America: The Age of Ronald Reagan 1980-1992.51. Millennium Years: Emigrants, Immigrants, Religion, Cults, Politics 1960-2012.52. Only Yesterday: Politics and the Economy 1993-2012."
