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These United States: A Nation in the Making: 1890 to the Present
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- 12/17/2015
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- Pub. Date:
- 12/17/2015
- Publisher:
- Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
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ISBN-13: | 9780393264463 |
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Publisher: | Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. |
Publication date: | 12/17/2015 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 784 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
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.
Table of Contents
List of Maps, Tables, and Figures xxi
Preface xxiii
Acknowledgments xxxi
Chapter 1 Origins of the American Century 1
The World's Columbian Exposition 2
Building an Industrial Nation 7
Mobilizing Farmers: The Populist Movement 18
Building American Unions 24
Making a Nation: Mary Elizabeth Lease, "Wall Street Owns the Country" (c. 1890), and Samuel Gompers, "What Does the Working Man Want?" (1890) 28
The Color Line 32
Suggested Reading 38
Chapter Review 39
Chapter 2 "To Start to Make This World Over": Imperialism and Progressivism, 1898-1912 40
The Spanish-American War 44
U.S. Foreign Engagement at the Turn of the Century 50
The Roots of Progressivism 58
Progressive Era Reform 63
Making a Nation: Vice Commission of the City of Chicago, "The Social Evil in Chicago: Study of Conditions and Recommendations" (1911), and Susan W. Fitzgerald, "Women in the Home" (1908) 66
Federal Progressivism 71
Progressivism at High Tide 75
Suggested Reading 80
Chapter Review 81
Chapter 3 Refining and Exporting Progressivism: Wilson's New Freedom and the Great War, 1913-1919 82
The Fight for Woman Suffrage 85
Wilson's Economic Reforms 91
Civil Rights and the New Freedom 96
The Great War 99
U.S. Involvement in the Great War 106
Making a Nation: Eugene V. Debs, Canton, Ohio, Anti-War Speech (1918), and W. E. B. Du Bois, "Returning Soldiers" (1919) 110
The Treaty and the League 114
Suggested Reading 120
Chapter Review 121
Chapter 4 Prosperity's Precipice: The Paradoxes of the 1920s 122
Domestic Polities in the Aftermath of the Great War 125
Affluence and Its Discontents 131
A Nation on the Move 139
Making a Nation: Thomas Nixon Carver, "Our Peaceful Revolution" (1924), and Alain Locke, "Negro Youth Speaks" (1925) 144
The Politics of Prosperity 147
The Great Depression 151
What Should Government Do? 153
Suggested Reading 160
Chapter Review 161
Chapter 5 A Twentieth-Century President: Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Term, 1932-1936 162
Between Election and Inauguration 165
The First Hundred Days: Emergency Medicine 170
The First Hundred Days: Lasting Reform 175
Radical Solutions for an Intractable Depression 183
The New Deal State 187
Cementing the Democratic Ascendancy 194
Making a Nation: Robert Carter, "Boys Going Nowhere: Notes from the Diary of an American 'Wild Boy'" (1933), and Edward Levinson, "Labor on the March" (1937) 196
Suggested Reading 200
Chapter Review 201
Chapter 6 A Rendezous with Destiny, 1936-1941 202
The New Deal at High Tide 205
Fascist Ambitions, American Neutrality 212
Preparing a Neutral Nation 221
The March to War 227
The Shock of Attack in the Air 231
Making a Nation: Charles A. Lindbergh, "Neutrality and War" (1939), and Asa Philip Randolph, "Call to the March" (1941) 232
Suggested Reading 238
Chapter Review 239
Chapter 7 The Watershed of War: At Home and Abroad, 1942-1945 240
Enter the United States 243
Mobilizing the Home Front 254
Human Rights at Home and Abroad 260
Making a Nation: Langston Hughes, "My America" (1943), and Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union Message to Congress (1944) 262
The War in Europe 264
Victory and Realpolitik 271
War's End 274
Suggested Reading 280
Chapter Review 281
Chapter 8 A Rising Superpower, 1944-1954 282
Truman and the Postwar World Order 284
The Origins of the Cold War 290
Reconversion: The Home Front 293
Cold War, First Moves 298
The Election of 1948 302
Anti-Communism at Home 307
An Escalating Cold War 311
Making a Nation: fled Channels, The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television (1950), and Coleman A. Young, Testimony before the Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S. House of Representatives, Hearings in Detroit, Michigan (1952) 312
Suggested Reading 322
Chapter Review 323
Chapter 9 Postwar Prosperity and Its Discontents, 1946-1960 324
Postwar Prosperity 327
The Baby Boom 331
A Nation of Homeowners 333
Life in the Consumers' Republic 335
Eisenhower's Middle Ground 339
God's Country 343
Teens, Sex, Anxiety 344
The Black Freedom Struggle 349
Making a Nation: Harry Henderson, "The Mass-Produced Suburbs" (1953), and the New York Times, "Levittown Incident" (1957) 358
The Covert Cold War 360
Security and insecurity 363
Suggested Reading 364
Chapter Review 365
Chapter 10 A Season of Change: Liberals and the Limits of Reform, 1960-1966 366
Kennedy and the Liberal Revival 369
Civil Rights 373
Cold War Crises 377
"Where's the PEN, Mr. President?" 380
Making a Nation: John F. Kennedy, Commencement Address at Yale University (1962), and John Lewis, "Wake Up America!" (1963) 384
President Johnson 387
The New Right 390
The Great Society 395
Expanding the Boundaries of Citizenship: Voting Rights and Immigration 399
Jobs and Freedom 402
Black Power, White Backlash 403
Suggested Beading 406
Chapter Review 407
Chapter 11 May Day: Vietnam and the Crisis of the 1960s 408
The Origins of the Vietnam War 411
Lyndon Johnson's War 415
The Antiwar Movement 421
Making a Nation: Lyndon Johnson, "Peace Without Conquest" (1965), and Paul Potter, "Naming the System" (1965) 426
A Working-Class War 429
War at Home: The Urban Rebellions 431
The Collapse in Public Support for the War 433
Tet and Bloody 1968 435
The Spirit of Rebellion 440
Suggested Reading 444
Chapter Review 445
Chapter 12 Which Side Are You On? The Battle for Middle America, 1968-1974 446
The Election of 1968: Democratic Fracture 449
Nixon and the "Silent Majority" 454
Nixon in Power 457
Rebellion and Repression 459
Undermining integration 463
The Personal Is Political 467
Making a Nation: League of Women Voters of California, Yes ERA! (1974), and Phyllis Schlafly, "What's Wrong with 'Equal Rights' for Women?" (1972) 476
The Election of 1972 and Watergate 479
Suggested Reading 484
Chapter Review 485
Chapter 13 A Season of Darkness: The Troubled 1970s 486
The War's End 489
New Directions in the Cold War 492
Economic Shifts 495
The Oil Shock 498
Recession and Disillusionment 502
The Environmental Crisis 507
The Urban Crisis 510
Making a Nation: Pete Hamill, "The Revolt of the White Lower Middle Class" (1969), and Studs Terkel, Interview with Gary Bryner (1975) 512
Political Reform 516
The Carter Presidency 518
The Turn to the Right 523
Suggested Reading 524
Chapter Review 525
Chapter 14 The New Gilded Age, 1980-2000 526
The Reagan Revolution? 530
The Social Safety Net 535
Religious Revivals 539
"Peace Through Strength" 545
America in the World 547
G.H.W. Bush and the Currents of Republicanism 553
From Cold War to Gulf War 554
The Low-Wage Economy 558
Immigration 560
Politics and the Slumping Economy 562
Clinton and Political Triangulation 564
The Contract with America and Welfare Reform 566
The Boom and Income Inequality 568
Making a Nation: William Galston and Elaine Ciulla Kamarck, The Politics of Evasion: Democrats and the Presidency (1989), and Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, and the House Republicans, "Contract with America" (1994) 570
Impeachment 573
Foreign Affairs 574
At Century's End 575
Suggested Reading 576
Chapter Review 577
Chapter 15 United We Stand, Divided We Fall, Since 2000 578
The Election of 2000 582
Bush in Office 585
9/11 589
The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq 592
The Limits of Conservatism 598
The Election of 2008 602
Obama and the World 605
Obama and the Limits of "Change" 606
The Burden of History 609
Making a Nation: Joseph S. Kalinowski, "The Truth about Income Inequality" (2012), and Chuck Collins, "The 99 Percent Spring" (2012) 610
Suggested Heading 614
Chapter Review 615
Notes N1
Glossary G1
Appendix
The Declaration of Independence A1
The Constitution of the United States A5
Amendments to the Constitution A13
Presidential Elections, 1884-2012 A19
Admission of States, 1889-1959 A22
Population of the United States, 1890-2010 A23
Unemployment Rate, 1890-2013 A24
Union Membership as a Percentage of Nonagricultural Employment, 1890-2012 A24
Credits C1
Index I-1