America in the Twentieth Century: A History - Hardcover

Patterson, James T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0155022210 ISBN 13: 9780155022218

Publisher: Harcourt College Pub, 1976

Synopsis

Uses anecdotes, quotations, and descriptions of key personalities to chronicle the history of America since 1900

About this title

About the Author:

James T. Patterson is Professor of History at Brown University.

Review:

Preface. 1. A Frayed Society: America at the Turn of the Century. 2. The Ambiguities of Progressive Solutions. 3. National Politics, 1900-1917. 4. From Expansion to War, 1900-1917. 5. The Divisiveness of War. 6. The 1920s: The Modern Decade. 7. Crash and Depression, 1929-1939. 8. Political Centralization in the 1930s. 9. From Nonintervention to War, 1929-1941 . 10. World War II: A Great Divide. 11. Acrimony at Home and Abroad, 1945-1952. 12. The Middle-Class World of the 1950s. 13. The 1960s: From Altruism to Disenchantment. 14. Turmoil, 1965-1968. 15. Unsettling Times: From Nixon to Reagan. 16. Republican Years, 1981-1992. 17. Approaching a Millennium: The 1990s.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt College Pub
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0155022210
• ISBN 13: 9780155022218
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 560