The Unfinished Nation: Brief, Interactive, Volume 2, with Primary Source Investigator and PowerWeb - Softcover

Brinkley,Alan

3.7

161 ratings by Goodreads

9780073133478: The Unfinished Nation: Brief, Interactive, Volume 2, with Primary Source Investigator and PowerWeb

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0073133477 ISBN 13: 9780073133478

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2004

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

McGraw-Hill is pleased to introduce a distinctly concise, affordable, flexible new text, built on Alan Brinkley's clear narrative voice and impeccable scholarship and accompanied by a wealth of media tools. This volume and its technological supports - a Primary Source Investigator (PSI) CD with hundreds of primary and secondary sources, as well as a stellar Online Learning Center - provide a careful examination of American political and diplomatic history through the Reconstruction and the New South, while exploring the diverse areas of the American past. The text's brevity and the organization of the companion media assets give instructors maximum flexibility in tailoring their courses.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University in New York, where he has taught since 1991. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard, and he has taught previously at M. I. T., Harvard, and the City University of New York Graduate School.. . His published works include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (Knopf, 1982), which won the 1983 National Book Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (Knopf, 1995); and Liberalism and Its Discontents (Harvard, 1998). He is the co-author of New Federalist Papers (Norton, 1997), Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States (Knopf, 1997); and The Teachers Handbook: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom (Chicago, 1999forthcoming).. . His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in scholarly journals and in such periodicals as 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; and he was the recipient of the Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize at Harvard. He is a trustee of the Twentieth Century Fund, a member of the national advisory board of the PBS series The American Experience, and a member of the editorial board The American Prospect.. . He has been a visiting professor at Princeton, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and the University of Torino (Italy). He was the 1998-1999 Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. . . .

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.