America, Past and Present

Résumé du livre

Civil War & its aftermath - Treatment of American Indians - Settlement of the West - Industrial development - Railways - Life in America 1877 - Roosevelt to Wilson - America in the First World War - Treaty of Versailles - Urban culture & politics of the Twenties - The Great Depression - Isolationism - The road to war - The Home Front in the Second World War - The onset of the Cold War - Eisenhower - Struggle over Civil Rights - All the way with LBJ - Vietnam War - Watergate - Richard Nixon - The Reagan era - Women and suffrage.