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These United States, a nation in the making, 1890 to the present, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Thomas J. Sugrue

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Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Thomas J. Sugrue

a nation in the making, 1890 to the present

Blends personal narratives and accounts of the century's largest events to create a panoramic view of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power

List of maps -- Preface: "We are still in the making" -- ch.1. Origins of the American century -- The world's Columbian exposition -- Building an industrial nation -- Mobilizing farmers: the populist movement -- Building American unions -- The color line -- ch.2. "To start to make this world over": Imperialism and Progressivism, 1898-1912 -- The Spanish-American War -- U.S. foreign engagement at the turn of the century -- The roots of Progressivism -- Progressive era reform -- Federal Progressivism -- Progressivism at high tide -- ch.3. Refining and exporting Progressivism: Wilson's New Freedom and the Great War, 1913-1919 -- The fight for woman suffrage -- Wilson's economic reforms -- Civil rights and the New Freedom -- The Great War -- U.S. involvement in the Great War -- The Treaty and the League -- ch.4. Prosperity's precipice: the paradoxes of the 1920s -- Domestic politics in the aftermath of the Great War -- Affluence and its discontents -- A nation on the move -- The politics of prosperity -- The Great Depression -- What should government do? -- ch.5. A twentieth-century president: Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first term, 1932-1936 -- Between election and inauguration -- The first hundred days: emergency medicine -- The first hundred days: lasting reform -- Radical solutions for an intractable depression -- The New Deal state -- Cementing the democratic ascendancy -- ch.6. A rendezvous with destiny, 1936-1941 -- The New Deal at high tide -- Fascist ambitions, American neutrality -- Preparing a neutral nation -- The march to war -- The shock of attack in the air -- ch.7. The watershed of war: at home and abroad, 1942-1945 -- Enter the United States -- Mobilizing the home front -- Human rights at home and abroad -- The war in Europe -- Victory and realpolitik -- War's end -- ch. 8. A rising superpower, 1944-1954 -- Truman and the postwar world order -- The origins of the Cold War -- Reconversion: the home front -- Cold War, first moves -- The election of 1948 -- Anti-Communism at home -- An escalating Cold War -- ch.9. In at least modest comfort: postwar prosperity and its discontents -- Postwar prosperity -- The baby boom -- A nation of homeowners -- Life in the consumers' republic -- Eisenhower's middle ground -- God's country -- Teens, sex, anxiety -- The black freedom struggle -- The covert Cold War -- Security and insecurity -- ch.10. A season of change: liberals and the limits of reform, 1960-1966 -- Kennedy and the liberal revival -- Civil rights -- Cold War crises -- "Where's the PEN, Mr. President?" -- President Johnson -- The New Right -- The war on poverty -- Expanding the boundaries of citizenship: voting rights and immigration -- Jobs and freedom -- Black power, white backlash -- ch. 11. May Day: Vietnam and the crisis of the 1960s -- The origins of the Vietnam War -- Lyndon Johnson's war -- The anti-war movement -- A working-class war -- War at home: the urban rebellions -- The collapse in public support for the war -- Tet and bloody 1968 -- The spirit of rebellion -- ch.12. Which side are you on?: the battle for middle America, 1968-1974 -- The election of 1968 -- Democratic fracture -- Nixon and the "silent majority" -- Nixon in power -- Rebellion and repression -- Undermining integration -- The personal is political -- The election of 1972 and Watergate -- ch.13. "A season of darkness": the troubled 1970s -- The war's end -- New directions in the Cold War -- Economic shifts -- The oil shock -- Recession and disillusionment -- The environmental crisis -- The urban crisis -- Political reform -- The Carter presidency -- The turn to the right -- ch.14. The new Gilded Age, 1980-2000 -- The Reagan Revolution? -- The social safety net -- Religious revivals -- "Peace through strength" -- American in the world -- G.H.W. Bush and the currents of Republicanism -- From Cold War to Gulf War -- The low-wage economy -- Immigration -- Politics and the slumping economy -- Clinton and political triangulation -- The Contract with America and welfare reform -- The boom and income inequality -- Impeachment -- Foreign affairs -- At century's end -- ch.15. United we stand, divided we fall, since 2000 -- The election of 2000 -- Bush in office -- 9/11 -- The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq -- The limits of conservatism -- The election of 2008 -- Obama and the world -- Obama and the limits of "change" -- The burden of history