A History of US: Book 8: An Age of Extremes (1870-1917) (A History of US, 8)
by Joy Hakim
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Names inscribed inside front wrap, sparse, neat & scattered highlighting throughout. Kinda blends in with the entire highlighting of paragraphs done by bindery.
Joy Hakim looks at the extremes of the Gilded Age. Joy Hakim forewarns her young readers that "An Age of Extremes 1880-1917," volume 8 in A History of US, talks a lot about Economics, but also assures them that this time around it will not be a "yawn." This particular volume looks at the United States at what we now refer to as the turn of the last century, what Mark Twain called the "Gilded Age." However, the preface sets up the idea that this period was an age of extremes that saw business tycoons with great wealth and millions of immigrants living in poverty. While the Brooklyn Bridge and Panama Canal were being built Jim Crow laws were established in the South and the Indian wars ended in the West. Underneath this all Hakim reminds her readers that the United States is a nation of practical idealists and that in contrast to the Founding Fathers like Benjamin Franklin, the businessmen of the Gilded Age, such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, were unscrupulous rather than altruistic.
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- Title
- A History of US: Book 8: An Age of Extremes (1870-1917) (A History of US, 8)
- Author
- Joy Hakim
- Book Condition
- Used - Larger Trade Paperback, Good readable/Usable Copy
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0195127668
- ISBN 13
- 9780195127669
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1999
- Pages
- 205
- Keywords
- U.S. History
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