These United States: A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present: Includes Bonus PDF Disc

Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth; Sugrue, Thomas J.

ISBN 10: 150465868X ISBN 13: 9781504658683

Publisher: Blackstone Pub, 2015

Synopsis

"These United States" is the saga of America s twentieth century, told with commanding scope and intimate detail.It is a breathtaking story of war and depression, astute leadership and arrogant power, inspiring mass movements, and the rise and decline of a middle-class democracy. It s also the moving story of a proud new American citizen cut off from his family in Lithuania by immigration restrictions; of a young woman from Kansas, stationed at Pearl Harbor, facing the unimagined challenges of her generation s rendezvous with destiny; of a steelworker able to achieve economic security in the postwar surge only to see his son fall back in a society of growing inequality.Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore and Thomas J. Sugrue, acclaimed historians of American politics and society, forge the panoramic and the personal into an absorbing, authoritative narrative of twentieth-century America. The story begins and ends in periods of concentrated wealth, with immigration roiling and politics and racial divisions flaring. Its arc over the century makes the illuminating, insightful connections characteristic of the best historical writing."

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Review:

"A tour de force: brilliantly conceived, elegantly written, and consistently insightful." -- Peniel Joseph, author of Stokely: A Life "This marvelous book weaves together a sweeping yet strikingly intimate narrative of the nation's century-long struggle to make real its founding promise. It is learned, passionate history, expertly told." -- Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of Justice "An invigorating, inspiring, much-needed exploration of the 'American Century.'" -- Beverly Gage, author of The Day Wall Street Exploded "Ambitious, wise, and briskly told...essential reading for anyone who cares about the course and fate of the nation." -- Michael Kazin, author of American Dreamers "A pleasure to read, These United States offers a consistent interpretation of our history, explaining our strengths and the origins of our problems." -- Linda Gordon, coauthor of Feminism Unfinished "Written by two of our most innovative historians, this beautifully realized volume stimulates thought, informs with great clarity, and advances the craft of historical synthesis." -- Ira Katznelson, author of Fear Itself "This vigorous narrative shows how the debates and decisions of the twentieth century shape those we face in the twenty-first... Combines a novelistic grasp of individual stories with the broad sweep of change across time." -- Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, coauthor of Like a Family

About the Author:

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore is the Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies at Yale University. Her research interests include twentieth-century U.S. history; African American history since 1865; U.S. women's and gender history since 1865; history of the American South; and reform movements. Her publications include Norton's Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950, which was one of the American Library Association's Notable Books and the Washington Post's Best Books of 2008, and she edited Who Were the Progressives? and co-edited Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights. Her first book, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920, won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, the James A. Rawley Prize, the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, and the Heyman Prize. Thomas J. Sugrue is Professor of History and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, specializing in twentieth-century American politics, urban history, civil rights, and race. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Society of American Historians, and past president of both the Urban History Association and the Social Science History Association. He is author of Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race and Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North. His first book, The Origins of the Urban Crisis, won the Bancroft Prize in American History, the Philip Taft Prize in Labor History, and the President's Book Award of the Social Science History Association, among other honors. In 2005, Princeton University Press selected The Origins of the Urban Crisis as one of its 100 most influential books of the past hundred years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackstone Pub
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 150465868X
• ISBN 13: 9781504658683
• Binding: Audio CD