America : the last best hope / William J. Bennett.
Title:
America : the last best hope / William J. Bennett.
ISBN:
9781400212842
Personal Author:
Edition:
[One-volume edition].
Publication Information:
Nashville, Tennessee : Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson, [2019]
©2019
Physical Description:
xviii, 905 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
"One-volume edition."--Jacket cover.
"Material in this volume appeared previously in different form in America, the last best hope, Volume 1 ; America, the last best hope, Volume 2 ; and A century turns."--Title page verso.
Contents:
The greatest revolution (1765-1783) -- $t Reflection and choice: framing the Constitution (1783-1789) -- $t The new republic (1789-1801) -- $t The Jeffersonians (1801-1829) -- $t Jackson and democracy (1829-1849) -- $t The rising storm (1849-1861) -- $t Freedom's fiery trail (1860-1863) -- $t A new birth of freedom (1863-1865) -- $t To bind up the nation's wounds (1865-1877) -- $t An age more golden than gilded? (1877-1897) -- $t The american dynamo -- shadowed by war (1897-1914) -- $t America and the Great War (1914-1921) -- $t The boom and the bust (1921-1933) -- $t FDR and the New Deal (1933-1939) -- $t America's rendezvous with destiny (1939-1941) -- $t America victorious (1943-1945) -- $t Truman defends the free world (1945-1953) -- $t Eisenhower and happy days (1953-1961) -- $t Passing the torch (1961-1969) -- $t Nixon's the one (1969-1974) -- $t The year the locusts ate (1974-1981) -- $t Reagan and revival (1981-1989).
Summary:
Endeavors to present the history of the United States from a balanced perspective, describing both positive and negative events, and illuminating the powerful leaders who steered the country on the path of freedom, revised and updated into a single-volume.
Geographic Term:
OCLC Number:
on1096213968
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