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The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s

The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s Trade paperback - 2002 - 1st Edition

by Brands, H.W

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A famous historian demonstrates that one can learn a lot about the contradictions that lie at the heart of America today by looking at them through the lens of the 1890s.

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Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 9x6x0. Third printing. A fine copy. 2002 Trade Paperback. 375 pp. The 1890s saw the closing of the American frontier and a shift toward imperialist ambitions. Populists and muckrakers grappled with robber barons and gold-bugs. Americans addressed the unfinished business of Reconstruction by separating blacks and whites. Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and other black leaders clashed over the proper response to continuing racial inequality. Those on top of the economic heap—Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan—created vast empires of wealth, while those at the bottom worked for dimes a day. Brands brings all this to life in a vivid narrative filled with larger-than-life characters facing momentous challenges as they worked toward an uncertain future.
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  • Title The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s
  • Author Brands, H.W
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 3rd Printing
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 390
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
  • Date 2002
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2334613
  • ISBN 9780226071169 / 0226071162
  • Weight 1.13 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.14 x 0.84 in (23.11 x 15.60 x 2.13 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - History - 1865-1898, Spanish-American War, 1898
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001057009
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.8

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From the rear cover

"Beautifully written and wonderfully absorbing, The Reckless Decade is the most accessible survey history of America's turbulent 1890s ever composed."-Douglas Brinkley

Just as we do today, Americans of the 1890s faced changes in economics, politics, society, and technology that led to wrenching and sometimes violent tensions between rich and poor, capital and labor, white and black, East and West. In The Reckless Decade, H. W. Brands demonstrates how we can learn about the contradictions that lie at the heart of America today by looking at them through the lens of the 1890s.

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About the author

H. W. Brands holds the Melbern G. Glasscock Chair in American History at Texas A&M University. He is the author, most recently, of The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin and The Strange Death of American Liberalism.

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