The American Nation in the 20th Century
Author: Paul S. Boyer
Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 836
ISBN-13: 9780030506741
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Author: Paul S. Boyer
Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 836
ISBN-13: 9780030506741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gary Gerstle
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2017-02-28
Total Pages: 543
ISBN-13: 1400883091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis sweeping history of twentieth-century America follows the changing and often conflicting ideas about the fundamental nature of American society: Is the United States a social melting pot, as our civic creed warrants, or is full citizenship somehow reserved for those who are white and of the "right" ancestry? Gary Gerstle traces the forces of civic and racial nationalism, arguing that both profoundly shaped our society. After Theodore Roosevelt led his Rough Riders to victory during the Spanish American War, he boasted of the diversity of his men's origins- from the Kentucky backwoods to the Irish, Italian, and Jewish neighborhoods of northeastern cities. Roosevelt’s vision of a hybrid and superior “American race,” strengthened by war, would inspire the social, diplomatic, and economic policies of American liberals for decades. And yet, for all of its appeal to the civic principles of inclusion, this liberal legacy was grounded in “Anglo-Saxon” culture, making it difficult in particular for Jews and Italians and especially for Asians and African Americans to gain acceptance. Gerstle weaves a compelling story of events, institutions, and ideas that played on perceptions of ethnic/racial difference, from the world wars and the labor movement to the New Deal and Hollywood to the Cold War and the civil rights movement. We witness the remnants of racial thinking among such liberals as FDR and LBJ; we see how Italians and Jews from Frank Capra to the creators of Superman perpetuated the New Deal philosophy while suppressing their own ethnicity; we feel the frustrations of African-American servicemen denied the opportunity to fight for their country and the moral outrage of more recent black activists, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, and Malcolm X. Gerstle argues that the civil rights movement and Vietnam broke the liberal nation apart, and his analysis of this upheaval leads him to assess Reagan’s and Clinton’s attempts to resurrect nationalism. Can the United States ever live up to its civic creed? For anyone who views racism as an aberration from the liberal premises of the republic, this book is must reading. Containing a new chapter that reconstructs and dissects the major struggles over race and nation in an era defined by the War on Terror and by the presidency of Barack Obama, American Crucible is a must-read for anyone who views racism as an aberration from the liberal premises of the republic.
Author: Charles Hiroshi Garrett
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2008-10-12
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0520254864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdentifying music as a vital site of cultural debate, this book captures the dynamic, contested nature of musical life in the United States. It examines an array of genres - including art music, jazz, popular song, ragtime, and Hawaiian music - and well-known musicians, such as Charles Ives, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Irving Berlin.
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Published: 1998-01-01
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ISBN-13: 9780030514722
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ISBN-13: 9780030514647
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 587
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Publisher: Holt McDougal
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 840
ISBN-13: 9780030508042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2015-12-22
Total Pages: 5
ISBN-13: 0393283070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresident Franklin Roosevelt told Americans in a 1936 fireside chat, “I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.” These United States builds on this foundation to present a readable, accessible history of the United States throughout the twentieth century—an ongoing and inspiring story of great leaders and everyday citizens marching, fighting, voting, and legislating to make the nation’s promise of democracy a reality for all Americans. In the college edition of These United States, Gilmore and Sugrue seamlessly weave insightful analysis with all of the support tools needed by students and instructors alike, including paired primary source documents, review questions, key terms, maps, and figures in a dynamic four-color design.
Author: Flannery Burke
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2017-05-02
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 0816528411
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A new kind of history of the Southwest (mainly New Mexico and Arizona) that foregrounds the stories of Latino and Indigenous peoples who made the Southwest matter to the nation in the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.