The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People - Hardcover
A single volume history of the United States that explores America's rich complexity and diversity, as well as the forces that have drawn it together to create a stable political system
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Alan Brinkley is professor of history at Columbia University. His Voices of Protest was the winner of the American Book Award in History in 1983.
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r before has the writing of American history seemed so much an arena of diverse claims and discord. Scholars explore areas of the past that once seemed hidden from view. Newly assertive groups in the American population draw attention to their own distinctive pasts. The "story" of America sometimes seems to be many different stories, with nothing to tie them together.
In The Unfinished Nation, Alan Brinkley provides a clear and intelligent account of the American past that strikes a balance between the new diversity in scholarship and the narrative unity that any general history must have. He makes clear that one can incorporate the rich and varied experiences of America's many cultures into a coherent and compelling story and at the same time retain a sense of what ties Americans together as members of a perpetually troubled but remarkably successful nation.
Beginning with the "discovery" by Europeans of a "New World" that was already the home o
In The Unfinished Nation, Alan Brinkley provides a clear and intelligent account of the American past that strikes a balance between the new diversity in scholarship and the narrative unity that any general history must have. He makes clear that one can incorporate the rich and varied experiences of America's many cultures into a coherent and compelling story and at the same time retain a sense of what ties Americans together as members of a perpetually troubled but remarkably successful nation.
Beginning with the "discovery" by Europeans of a "New World" that was already the home o
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- PublisherAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0679454594
- ISBN 13 9780679454595
- BindingHardcover
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