The Unfinished Nation: Brief, Interactive, Volume 1, with Primary Source Investigator and PowerWeb - Softcover

Brinkley, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0073133469 ISBN 13: 9780073133461

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2004

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Alan Brinkley has been professor of American history at Columbia University in New York since 1991. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard, and he has taught previously at M.I.T., Harvard (where he received the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize), the City University of New York Graduate School, and Princeton. He was Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University in 1998-1999. His published works include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression), which won the 1983 National Book Award; The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War; and Liberalism and Its Discontents. His essays articles, and reviews have appeared in the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History 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. He is chairman of the board of trustees of the Century Foundation, a member of the editorial board The American Prospect, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0073133469
• ISBN 13: 9780073133461
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352