Twentieth-Century America A Brief History

by Reeves, Thomas C.

• ISBN13: 9780195044836
• ISBN10: 0195044835
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-02
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Succinctly, comprehensively, and objectively, this overview of 20th-century American history provides a fluidly written narrative that stresses social as well as political history, and pays special attention to such topics as religion, crime, public health, national prosperity, and the media. 30 illustrations.

Author Biography

Thomas C. Reeves is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Parkside and Senior Fellow at the Wisconsin Policy Institute. The author of The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy and the best-selling A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy, he lives in Franksville, Wisconsin.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
By 1900	1	(20)
Progressivism and the Square Deal	21	(20)
The Trials and Triumphs of Progressivism	41	(20)
The First World War	61	(20)
The Twenties	81	(20)
The Depression Decade	101	(18)
The World at War Again	119	(20)
Postwar Challenges	139	(16)
The ``Best Years''	155	(24)
Era of Upheaval	179	(20)
Nixon's America	199	(20)
Years of Disillusionment	219	(16)
Dynamic Conservatism	235	(22)
Into the Nineties	257	(20)
The Close of the Century	277	(24)
Index	301