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An age of extremes
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- Summary
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Covers the period of American history from the 1880s to World War I.
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- Creator
- Joy Hakim
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Third edition, revised
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2005]
- ©2005
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 215 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0195189019, 9780195189018, 0195327225, 9780195327229
- OCLC
- ocm71803313
- Includes bibliographical references (page 200) and index.
- Preface: Age of extremes -- Feature: Nation of practical idealists -- Carnegie -- Feature: How do you make steel? -- Bookkeeper named Rockefeller -- Mr. Storyteller -- Powerful Pierpont -- Monopoly: Not always a game -- Feature: Let's talk business -- Builders and dreamers -- Lady L -- Presidents again -- People's party -- Making money -- Hard times -- Feature: Woman who didn't like to be called a hero (but was one) -- Gold and silver -- Feature: Cheese sandwiches in the Klondike -- Cross of gold -- Some bad ideas -- Producing goods -- Feature: Mail (not the mall) for shopping -- Feature: God and money in America -- Harvest at Haymarket -- Workers, labor (and a triangle) -- Feature: Leaving Sicily -- Rolling the leaf in Florida -- Catching the day -- Telling it like it is -- Feature: Inferno in Chicago -- Bread and roses, too -- Fourth estate -- Ida, Sam and the Muckrakers -- Boon to the winter -- Wilderness is preservation -- Feature: Parks for a nation -- Gilded age turns progressive -- Teedie -- From dude to cowboy -- Spanish-American War -- Feature: War with Spain: Imperialism and open doors -- Aloha Oe -- Teddy bear president -- Jane Addams, reformer -- Henry Ford -- Birdmen -- William Howard Taft -- Feature: Some political theory: Discussion -- Schoolteacher president -- War -- Feature: ''We're coming over...'' -- Chronology of events -- More books to read -- Picture credits -- Index -- Note from the author -- Atlas