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The making of the American dream. Volume 2, The beginning of the end of the Republic : an unconventional history of the United States from 1607 to 1900 / Lewis E. Kaplan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaplan, Lewis E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (234 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Algora Publishing, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Any history that touts itself as unconventional is bound to raise some hackles when it challenges traditional interpretations of our nation?s past. Yet history is continually under revision. This 2-volume work, covering America's first 300 years, differs from others in seeking to debunk numerous flattering and conventionally accepted myths. Reading between the lines of what we've all been taught as US history, the author probes a little deeper into what perhaps was never denied ? but was never spelled out, either. Some inconvenient questions emerge. Was lust for land the driving force behind e
- Contents:
- Introduction; Chapter 1. Setting the Stage for Hostilities; Chapter 2. Why the War Lasted Four Years; Chapter 3. The Immediate Aftermath of the War; Chapter 4. The Road to Impeachment; Chapter 5. The Case for Impeachment; Chapter 6. The Plight of the Negro; Chapter 7. The North: Growth and Corruption; Chapter 8. The Scandals of the Grant Administrations; Chapter 9. Railroads, Corruption and the Panic of 1873; Chapter 10. The Stolen Presidential Election of 1876; Chapter 11. The Hayes Administration; Chapter 12. The Plight of the Capitalist Farmers
- Chapter 13. The Last Effort to Organize the Farm CommunityChapter 14. The Populist Party; Chapter 15. The Plight of Labor; Chapter 16. The AFL; Chapter 17. The Consolidation of Industry; Chapter 18. The Republicans in Disarray; Chapter 19. The US Acquires a Navy; Chapter 20. The Panic of 1893; Chapter 21. The Spanish-American War; Epilogue; Recommended Readings (The Making of the American Dream Volume 2)
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 12, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 0-87586-698-0
- OCLC:
- 814418034
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