A History of US (A ^AHistory of US) - Hardcover

Hakim, Joy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195095154 ISBN 13: 9780195095159

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Covers American history from post World War II up to the present, including the civil rights movement, Vietnam War, the arrival of the Beatles, the end of the Cold War, and advances in technology

About this title

From the Publisher:

During the long freeze of the Cold War, hot wars explode. Overseas, Americans fight in Korea and Vietnam, while at home, African-Americans take to the streets and the courts to demand their civil rights. Take a new look as Harry Truman and Joe McCarthy, LBJ and JFK, Ike and Thurgood Marshall, Elvis Presley and Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks and Malcolm X, Cesar Chavez and Ronald Reagan-and two guys named Bill (Clinton and Gates). Does our land of promise have the will to become, at long last, a nation for all the people?

About the Author:

Joy Hakim, a former teacher, editor, and writer won the prestigious James Michener Prize for her series, A History of US, which has sold over 4 million copies nationwide. A graduate of Smith College and Goucher College she spent years teaching students from elementary school up to the college level. She also served as an Associate Editor at Norfolk's Virginian-Pilot, and was an Assistant Editor at McGraw-Hill's World News.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0195095154
• ISBN 13: 9780195095159
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208