America In Modern Times (Since 1941) - Softcover
This history of post-1941 America draws on social history, women's history, history of ideas, as well as traditional political and foreign policy history. Oral history and first-hand accounts are used to integrate the voices of ordinary Americans into the narrative.
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Alan Brinkley has been professor of American history at Columbia University in New York since 1991. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard, and he has taught previously at M.I.T., Harvard (where he received the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize), the City University of New York Graduate School, and Princeton. He was Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University in 1998-1999. His published works include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression), which won the 1983 National Book Award; The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War; and Liberalism and Its Discontents. His essays articles, and reviews have appeared in the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, Time, Newsweek, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books. He has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the National Humanities Center, the Russell Sage Foundation, and others. He is chairman of the board of trustees of the Century Foundation, a member of the editorial board The American Prospect, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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- PublisherMcGraw-Hill College
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0070079625
- ISBN 13 9780070079625
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Cover clean and unmarked with light edgewear, crease marks on lower corner. Interior is very clean with a few pages with underlining and highlighting. Volume 2 of a series, beginning with page 321 to p 650 inc suggested reading section and index. In 1941 the United States entered the greatest war in the history of mankind and, in the process, accepted its role as the leading international power in the world. As the US society and economy seemed poised and uncertain of its role in the 21st century, this books looks back at how the US has struggled and tried to balance the conflicting demands of meeting its responsibilities as a global power and its social responsibilities at home. A very good overview analysis without extensive detail. For example, some topics are The Cold War, Postwar Prosperity, Racial Justice, Eisenhower Republicanism, Resurgence of Liberalism, Vietnam, Cultural Revolutions, The Imperial Presidency, American Conservatism. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. Pages xvi, 321-650. 1997, Overture Books/McGraw-Hill. Seller Inventory # 010595
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