This book is a documentary reader that explores major themes of conflict and consensus in modern American history. Edited by Allen F. Davis and Harold D. Woodman, the sixth edition presents a collection of historical essays, documents, and interpretations addressing political, social, economic, and cultural developments in the United States. The work emphasizes differing historical perspectives…
This volume presents a comprehensive examination of the Progressive Era in the United States, a period marked by widespread political, social, and economic reform from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. Edited by Lewis L. Gould, the collection brings together influential essays and analyses exploring the diverse motivations, leaders, and movements that shaped Progressive thought. I…
For a brief, bright moment in 1945, America stood at its apex, looking back on victory not only against the Axis powers but against the Great Depression, and looking ahead to seemingly limitless power and promise. What we've done with that power and promise over the past six decades is a vitally important and fascinating topic that has rarely been tackled in one volume, and never by a historian…
This book is mostly about the economics of inequality. In various essays in this volume, Stiglitz describing the nexus between politics and economics: the vicious circle by which more economic inequality gets translated into political inequality, especially in America's political system, which gives such unbridled power to money.
Megatrends was a prophetic work: The information society and global economy. once the stuff of controversial theory, are now part of daily life. Networks are replacing hierarchies as the prime model for getting things done inside and outside corporations. From telecommunications to interior design, "high tech/high touch" has come to define the new relationship between people and technology.
A former National Security Advisor offers a chilling portrait of six terrifying scenarios that threaten the safety and security of the United States, including the rise of global terrorism and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and describes why and why not the American government is prepared to meet such potential threats. 20,000 first printing.
"In the 1990s Americans have been thinking incessantly about the leveling winds of cultural forces. They Have been worrying about the power of those winds swiftly to level the works of government, such as laws and schools, and of centuries, such as families and standards of taste and traditions of civility.