On the Edge: The United States in the Twentieth Century

Authors

David Horowitz, Portland State UniversityFollow
Peter N. Carroll

ISBN

9780534571863

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

2005

Subjects

United States -- History -- 20th century

Abstract

Contents

Life at the start of the Twentieth Century -- The politics of progressive reform, 1897-1912 -- Wilsonian reform and global order, 1912-1920 -- The politics and culture of the Jazz Age, 1920-1928 -- The Great Depression and New Deal Reform, 1929-1936 -- Democratic capitalism and the Liberal State, 1937-1941 -- World War II: against fascism and the search for global order -- The search for security, 1945-1949 -- Republican leadership and the anticommunist crusade, 1950-1954 -- Eisenhower's troubled consensus, 1954-1960 -- The age of liberal activism, 1960-1965 -- Polarized America: racial turmoil and Vietnam, 1965-1968 -- The embattled presidency, 1968-1976 -- Struggling giant: the Carter and Regan years, 1976-1988 -- The turn to centrism: Bush, Clinton, and Bush, 1988-2003.

Rights

© Thomson/Wadsworth

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/38884

Citation Details

Horowitz, D. A. (David A., & Carroll, P. N. (2005). On the Edge : the United States in the Twentieth Century (3rd ed.). Thomson/Wadsworth.