American Stories: A History of the United States Since 1965: 2 - Softcover

Brands, H. W.; Breen, T. H.; Williams, R. Hal; Gross, Ariela J.

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ISBN 10: 0205960901 ISBN 13: 9780205960903

Verlag: Pearson College Div, 2014

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Explore America’s rich and complex past in this accessible presentation of American history

Using a streamlined and powerful narrative, the authors take readers beyond an assortment of facts to tell the story of our nation.American Stories covers the essential elements and events in American history and uses significant incidents and episodes to reflect the dilemmas, choices, and decisions made by the American people as well as by their leaders.

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Biografía del autor:

H. W. Brands is the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of numerous works of history and international affairs, includingThe Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War (1993), Into the Labyrinth: The United States and the Middle East (1994),The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (1995), TR: The Last Romantic (a biography of Theodore Roosevelt) (1997),What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (1998),The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (2000), The Strange Death of American Liberalism (2001),The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (2002),Woodrow Wilson (2003), Andrew Jackson (2005), Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (2008), andAmerican Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 (2010). His writing has received popular and critical acclaim; several of his books have been bestsellers, andThe First American and Traitor to His Class were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. He lectures frequently across North America and in Europe. His essays and reviews have appeared in theNew York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, theLos Angeles Times, Atlantic Monthly, and elsewhere. He is a regular guest on radio and television, and has participated in several historical documentary films

T. H. Breen is the Director of the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies and William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968. He has taught at Northwestern since 1970. Breen’s major books include The Character of the Good Ruler: A Study of Puritan Political Ideas in New England (1974);Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America (1980); Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution (1985); and, with Stephen Innes of the University of Virginia,“Myne Owne Ground”: Race and Freedom on Virginia’s Eastern Shore (1980). HisImagining the Past (1989) won the 1990 Historic Preservation Book Award. His most recent book isMarketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence (2004). In addition to receiving several awards for outstanding teaching at Northwestern, Breen has been the recipient of research grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), the National Humanities Center, and the Huntington Library. He has served as the Fowler Hamilton Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford University (1987–1988), the Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions, Cambridge University (1990–1991), the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University (2000–2001), and was a recipient of the Humboldt Prize (Germany). He has recently publishedAmerican Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People (2010). He is now working on a book to be entitledJourney to a Nation: George Washington’s Campaign to Bring the New Federal Government to the People 1789-1791.

R. Hal Williams is professor of history at Southern Methodist University. He received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1963 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968. His books includeThe Democratic Party and California Politics, 1880—1896 (1973); Years of Decision: American Politics in the 1890s (1978);The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age (1990); andRealigning America: McKinley, Bryan, and the Remarkable Election of 1896<

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• Verlag: Pearson College Div
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0205960901
• ISBN 13: 9780205960903
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 774