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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Excellent perspective ( ) Evans, Harold. The American Century. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1998. Any history buff should have this sitting on his or her shelf (and have a shelf sturdy enough to support this 700+ book). Chock full of intriguing cartoons and mesmerizing photographs, American Century covers every aspect of U.S. history from 1889 to the mid 1990s. Well written with commentaries and first hand accounts, history comes alive. The people, the politics, the power, the pitiful downfalls. The 20th century is laid out and every historical moment of worth is described and detailed. The story of the last 100 years in the life of the United States, and that of the 20th century. In this century, America became the largest economic and military power, sent men to the moon and opened a branch of McDonalds in Moscow. Over 900 photographs, cartoons and illustrations are included. Although most of this sprawling book is set in the 20th century, it begins on April 29, 1889, when Benjamin Harrison commemorated the first centennial of American government. This 11-year jump-start allows Harold Evans to write about the last major push to settle the Western territories, the gradual displacement of Native American societies, the rise to prominence of William Jennings Bryan and other quintessentially American moments of the 19th century.
"Books often surprise, but rarely this happily...Evans explores his century with energy and wit...A work of history that lives and breathes and wonderfully instructs." "Evans employs a tolerant, skeptical, dispassionate tone that makes for consistently absorbing reading, but what elevates his book above the (also laudable) The Century, by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster is Evans's intellectual acuity..." "A sumptuous memory-book of an astonishing time. Like the crowded era it chronicles, The American Century is sometimes heroic, sometimes harrowing, but always compelling and relentlessly eventful. The brisk text breathes new life into even the best-remembered episodes, and the choice of historic photographs is superb...Richly rewards close reading." "The pictures...are the best collected in any of the books on the century. SomeĀ are funny, some harrowing; and their captions can sizzle...This is an honest book. Because it truly cares about America, it is also a patriotic one." Distinctions
Photographs, illustrations and text recount the history and people of the United States during the twentieth century. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)973.9History and Geography North America United States 1901-LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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