Why The American Century

Author : Olivier Zunz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226994628
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why the American Century? written by Olivier Zunz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface: "The New Colossus"Pt. 1: Making the Century AmericanCh. 1: Producers, Brokers, and Users of Knowledge Ch. 2: Defining Tools of Social Intelligence Ch. 3: Inventing the Average American Pt. 2: The Social Contract of the MarketCh. 4: Turning out Consumers Ch. 5: Deradicalizing Class Pt. 3: Embattled IdentitiesCh. 6: From Voluntarism to Pluralism Ch. 7: Enlarging the Polity Pt. 4: Exporting American Principles Ch. 8: Individualism and Modernization Ch. 9: The Power of Uncertainty Acknowledgments Notes Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Walter LaFeber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317370422
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Century written by Walter LaFeber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this classic text for courses on recent U.S. history covers the story of contemporary America from World War II into the second decade of the twenty-first century with new coverage of the Obama presidency and the 2012 elections. Written by three highly respected scholars, the book seamlessly blends political, social, cultural, intellectual, and economic themes into an authoritative and readable account of our increasingly complex national story. The seventh edition retains its affordability and conciseness while continuing to add the most recent scholarship. Each chapter contains a special feature section devoted to cultural topics including the arts and architecture, sports and recreation, technology and education. Enhancing the students' learning experience is the addition of web links to each of these features to provide complementary visual study tools. An American Century instructor site provides instructors who adopt the book with high interest features--illustrations, photos, maps, quizzes, an elaboration of key themes in the book, PowerPoint presentations, and lecture launchers on topics including the "Military-Industrial Complex" Speech by Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Tet Offensive, and the prospects for a Second American Century. In addition, students have free access to a multimedia primary source archive of materials carefully selected to support the themes of each chapter.

Author : Walter LaFeber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317478401
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Century written by Walter LaFeber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this classic text on modern U.S. history brings the story of contemporary America into the second decade of the twenty-first century with new coverage of the Obama presidency and the 2012 elections. Written by three highly respected scholars, the book seamlessly blends political, social, cultural, intellectual, and economic themes into an authoritative and readable account of our increasingly complex national story. The seventh edition retains its affordability and conciseness while continuing to add the most recent scholarship. Each chapter contains a special feature section devoted to cultural topics including the arts and architecture, sports and recreation, technology and education. Adding to the readers' learning experience is the addition of web links to each of these features, providing numerous complementary visual study tools. These links become live, and illustrations appear in full color, in the ebook edition. An American Century instructor site provides instructors who adopt the book with high interest features--illustrations, photos, maps, quizzes, an elaboration of key themes in the book, PowerPoint presentations, and lecture launchers on topics including the Versailles Conference, the "Military-Industrial Complex" Speech by Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Tet Offensive, and the prospects for a Second American Century. In addition, students have free access to a multimedia primary source archive of materials carefully selected to support the themes of each chapter.

Author : Walter LaFeber
Publisher : New York : Wiley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Century written by Walter LaFeber and published by New York : Wiley. This book was released on 1979 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patrick Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300176562
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time No Longer written by Patrick Smith and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the United States' founding myths no longer apply, and explains why Americans must reconsider the facts of their history.

Author : Murphy Guyer
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822200260
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Century written by Murphy Guyer and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter LaFeber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780394368993
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Century written by Walter LaFeber and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John W. Kirshon
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1609119576
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An American Century written by John W. Kirshon and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set amid the flow of the great events, trends, facts and fads of the 20th century, An American Century is a non-fiction, historical novel that tells the story of an American family and the history of the United States of America in our time. It recounts the lives of three generations of the Bleucher family: Oscar and Lilly, Paul and Josephine, and Jack and Kathy, as well as others. Follow their exploits during the Progressive Era, from the Klondike Gold Rush to the San Francisco Earthquake, to life on a Blackfeet Indian reservation, through the Great War and the Red Scare, the Roaring Twenties and Prohibition, the Crash and the Great Depression, and World War II. Readers will also relive the Fabulous Fifties, the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Swinging Sixties, the Vietnam War and Resistance, the Age of Reagan, and the Gulf War and Globalization, until the climax on September 11, 2001. An American Century features scenes with such historical figures as Henry Luce, Lucky Luciano, Allen Dulles, John F. Kennedy, Clare Boothe Luce, Ronald Reagan, Arthur Schlesinger and John Kennedy Jr., and offers a fact-based but ultimately little-known theory of the Kennedy assassination, the mystery of the century.Blending the art of modern storytelling with historically accurate details, it is a novel of love and war and peace, ambition and pride and loss, courage and despair and hope, as well as the tender moments that are important in every life. Fans of literature set in history will love An American Century, the epic saga of a good family and the chronicle of a great empire, illuminating one hundred years of Americana. About the Author: John W. Kirshon is a journalist, writer and editor with more than 30 years of experience at The New York Times, the Associated Press, and CBS News. He was the executive editor of Chronicle of the 20th Century and the editor-in-chief of Chronicle of America, both bestselling, illustrated history books. He grew up in Larchmont and Mamaroneck in Westchester County, New York, and was motivated to write An American Century in order to place the story of a representative family within the context of contemporary history, and enlighten those who seek a more confidential knowledge of the social history of the United States in the 20th century, answering the question: How did we get from where we were then to where we are now?He lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, and is inspired to write by the current events of daily journalism and long-term trends of history. Publisher's website: http: //www.sbpra.com/JohnWKirsho

Author : Harold Evans
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Century written by Harold Evans and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1998 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs, illustrations and text recount the history and people of the United States during the twentieth century.

Author : Tyrel Eskelson
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1785385267
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Century written by Tyrel Eskelson and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the 19th Century belonged to Britain, the 20th Century was the age of American power and world dominance. The American Century charts the rise to global power of the USA and its journey from a regional hegemon to superpower status. It examines the development of an imperial power through the course of two world wars, the long nuclear standoff with the Soviet Union and the economic shocks and crises of the 20th Century. The American Century also examines life for the American people and the experience of living in a racially segregated and often volatile society, where notions of liberty and the American dream were interpreted, negotiated and sometimes rejected by many throughout a tumultuous century.