Author: John D. Hicks

Publisher: Domville -Fife Press

Published: 2008-11

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1443727237

REPUBLICAN ASCENDANCY 1921- 1933 by HENRY STEELE COMMAGER. Contents include: DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION. THE ENGLISH PEOPLE ON THE EVE OF COLONIZATION, 1603-1630. 13 3006. SPAIN IN AMERICA. FRANCE IN AMERICA. EUROPE AND AMERICA. FOUNDING THE ENGLISH COLONIES. GROWTH OF THE ENGLISH COLONIES, 1660-1710. THE ENGLISH COLONIES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. THE CULTURAL LIFE OF THE AMERICAN COLONIES, 1607-1763. 18 3005. THE COMING OF THE REVOLUTION, 1763-1775-TB goo. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1775-1783.18 3011. CONFEDERATION AND CONSTITUTION. CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 1789-1835. THE FEDERALIST ERA, 1789-1801. 13 3027. THE JEFFERSONIAN ERA. THE NEW NATIONALISM, 1814-1829. THE RISE OF THE WEST, 1776-1830. THE JACKSONIAN ERA, 1828-1848. 13 3028. THE GROWTH OF SOUTHERN CIVILIZATION, 1790-1860. 73 3040. THE CRUSADE AGAINST SLAVERY, 1830-1860. 13 3029. THE CULTURAL LIFE OF THE NEW NATION, 1776-1830. 13 3026. CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, 1830-1860. CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 1835-1890. THE FAR WESTERN FRONTIER, 1830-1860. 13 3012. THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR. THE CIVIL WAR, 1860-1865. THE CONFEDERACY. RECONSTRUCTION. HAYES TO HARRISON, 1877-1890. POLITICS, REFORM AND EXPANSION, 1890-1900. 13 3020. AMERICAS RISE TO WORLD POWER, 1898-1954. 13 3021. CULTURAL HISTORY, 1860-1900. THE FAR WEST AND THE GREAT PLAINS. THE ERA OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT, 1900-1912. 13 3022. WOODROW WILSON AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA, 1910-1917. 13 3023. WORLD WAR I. THE CONSTITUTION AND THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. AMERICAN CULTURE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. REPUBLICAN ASCENDANCY, 1921-1933. 13 3041. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND THE NEW DEAL, 1932-1940. 13 3025. THE UNITED STATES AND WORLD WAR II, Volume I. 13 3044. THE UNITED STATES AND WORLD WAR II, Volume II. 13 3045. POST WORLD WAR II Domestic Affairs. POST WORLD WAR II Foreign Affairs. STATISTICAL VOLUME. REPUBLICAN ASCENDANCY 7927 1933 by JOHN D. HICKS 4 HARPER TORCHBOOKS The University Library HARPER ROW, Publishers New York Contents EDITORS INTRODUCTION viii PREFACE xi 1. THE STATE OF THE UNION i 2. THE RETREAT TO ISOLATION 23 3. WHAT PRICE NORMALCY 50 4. THE PROGRESSIVE PROTEST 79 5. PROSPERITY PLUS 106 6. THE DIPLOMACY OF ISOLATION 130 7. THE OTHER AMERICAS 153 8. SOCIAL INSECURITY 167 9. AGRICULTURE vs. INDUSTRY 193 10. HOOVER TAKES OVER 215 1 1 . DEPRES SION DIPLOMACY 24 1 I2 - 26 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY 281 INDEX 6617760 302. Illustrations. These photographs, grouped in a separate section, will be found following page 110 1. President Harding throwing out the ball in 1921 2. Calvin Coolidge dips a hook in a Vermont trout stream 3. The American delegation to the Washington Armament Confer ence in 1921 4. Senator Borah, leading American advocate of the Conference 5. Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes in 1924 6. Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin and Robert M. La Follette, Jr. 7. Albert B. Fall being assisted into the courtroom to stand trial in 1927 8. A Ku Klux Klan parade in the national capital 9. Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan at the Scopes trial in 1925 10. Charles A. Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis 11. General Billy Mitchell 12...