The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s - Hardcover

Brands, H. W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312135947 ISBN 13: 9780312135942

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1995

Synopsis

Examining the 1890s in terms of a reckless end-of-the-century period not unlike the present one, a detailed study covers such events as the Spanish-American War; the rivalry between Morgan, Carnegie, and Rockefeller; and economic upheavel

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"Beautifully written and wonderfully absorbing, The Reckless Decade is the most accessible survey history of America's turbulent 1890s ever composed."-Douglas Brinkley

Just as we do today, Americans of the 1890s faced changes in economics, politics, society, and technology that led to wrenching and sometimes violent tensions between rich and poor, capital and labor, white and black, East and West. In The Reckless Decade, H. W. Brands demonstrates how we can learn about the contradictions that lie at the heart of America today by looking at them through the lens of the 1890s.

About the Author:

H. W. Brands holds the Melbern G. Glasscock Chair in American History at Texas A&M University. He is the author, most recently, ofThe First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin and The Strange Death of American Liberalism.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0312135947
• ISBN 13: 9780312135942
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 375