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On the edge : the United States in the twentieth century
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- Creator
- David A. Horowitz, Peter N. Carroll
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- Language
- English
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- Third edition
- Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, [2005]
- ©2005
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- xvi, 575 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0534571867, 9780534571863
- OCLC
- ocm56020193
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Life at the start of the Twentieth Century -- The politics of progressive reform, 1897-1912 -- Wilsonian reform and global order, 1912-1920 -- The politics and culture of the Jazz Age, 1920-1928 -- The Great Depression and New Deal Reform, 1929-1936 -- Democratic capitalism and the Liberal State, 1937-1941 -- World War II: against fascism and the search for global order -- The search for security, 1945-1949 -- Republican leadership and the anticommunist crusade, 1950-1954 -- Eisenhower's troubled consensus, 1954-1960 -- The age of liberal activism, 1960-1965 -- Polarized America: racial turmoil and Vietnam, 1965-1968 -- The embattled presidency, 1968-1976 -- Struggling giant: the Carter and Regan years, 1976-1988 -- The turn to centrism: Bush, Clinton, and Bush, 1988-2003