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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Discover the political and economic history of America during "The Centennial Years" with this hardcover first thus edition authored by Fred A. Shannon and edited by Robert Huhn Jones. Published by Doubleday in 1967, this book is in Very Good condition, accompanied by a Good jacket.While the corners show some rubbing, the covers, overall, are in excellent shape. The binding has a slight flex but remains square with unbroken hinges, ensuring the book's structural integrity. Within, the interior pages are clean and unmarked.The jacket, despite some general edge wear, serves its purpose. It has a few chips, all measuring less than 1/2". This edition will be meticulously packaged to ensure its protection during shipment, and an USPS electronic tracking number will be provided free of charge.If you require more information or pictures of the book, please don't hesitate to contact me.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 6"x8.5". 362 indexed pages. X-library w/graphics. Navy cloth boards w/gilt lettering on spine. Matching blue paste downs. Great B&W photos! Jacket design by Paul Davis. Preface by Jones. Goodreads 4.0 Between 1876 and 1892 the US feted the anniversaries of its independence, its consitution and its discovery. But the celebrations found the nation in a mood far from nostalgia. This book by a major historian is the story of those years, when America made its great leap forward in the material sphere, but intrenched political machines, unimaginative Presidents, and conservative courts combined to keep many facets of pollitics and society at a standstill. Frequent expolsions of unrest, most spectacularly the Haymarket bombing and the bitter, bloody railroad strikes, met a harsh response from a nation ready to reap the benefits of its industrial revolution, but not yet willing to cope with the resulting problems. This was the time when railroad track mileage doubled, making possible business networks of a size previously undreamed of, fortunes were made through monopolies and trusts, ad labor, fumbling toward a national organization fought its first battles with troops and Pinkertons. Electric and related inventions were transorming life at home and on the job for many American, but in the South the spreading sharecropping system was returning the Negro to bondage, this time in company with the poor white man. And in a nation that still thought of itself as rural, the famer was already suffering from many of the troubles that beset him today.…

Condition: Ex-Library: VG/VG dj. 362pp. 24 pages of photo plates First Edition so stated. Edited by Robert Huhn Jones.