Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0155003666 ISBN 13: 9780155003668

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 1993

A history of the United States with an emphasis on public policy. Includes maps, photos, charts, and suggestions for further reading.

About the Author:

John Morton Blum is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of many books on American history including "The Republican Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Morality, The Promise of America, "and "The Progressive Presidents."

William S. McFeely, the Abraham Baldwin Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, at the University of Georgia, is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning biography Grant. He lives in Wellfleet and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. His many books include American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia and Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (October 15, 1917-February 28, 2007) was a renowned American historian, social critic, and the prolific author of numerous books including, most recently, "War and the American Presidency," He twice won both the Pulitzer Prize, for "The Age of Jackson" and "A Thousand Days," and the National Book Award, also for "A Thousand Days" as well as "Robert Kennedy and his Times," In 1998 he was awarded the prestigious National Humanities Medal.

About the Author
Kenneth M. Stampp is Morrison Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. A past president of the Organization of American Historians, a recipient of an American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, he is the author of several seminal works in American history, including The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South and The Imperiled Union.