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The American century
| 責任表示 | by Harold Evans with Gail Buckland and Kevin Baker |
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| データ種別 | 図書 |
| 出版情報 | New York : Knopf , 1998 |
| 本文言語 | 英語 |
| 大きさ | xxiii, 710 p. : ill. ; 30 cm |
| 概要 | "In a style at once trenchant and easygoing, Harold Evans leads us on a walk through the century now drawing to a close, taking us back over ground that far too many of us have let slip from our memor...es."--Shelby Foote, author of "The Civil War "The American Century is an epic work. With its spectacular illustrations and incisive and lucid writing, it is as exciting and inspiring as the hundred years it surveys. Harold Evans has dramatized a people's struggle to achieve the American Dream, but also offers a thoughtful and provocative analysis of the great movements and events in America's rise to a position of political and cultural dominance. There are 900 photographs, several hundred brought to light for the first time, and the richly researched narrative offers many surprises. In 1889, when the United States entered the second hundred years of its existence, it was by no means certain that a nation of such diverse peoples, manifold beliefs, and impossible ideals could survive its own exceptional experiment in democracy or manage to avoid a headlong slide into oblivion. Evans describes what happened to the democratic ideal amid the clash of personalities and the convulsions of great events. Here are assessments of the century's nineteen presidents, from Benjamin Harrison, who brought the Stars and Stripes into American life in 1889, to the movie star who waved it so vigorously a hundred years later. Here are the muckrakers who exposed the evils of rampant capitalism, and the women who fought to make a reality of the rhetoric of equality. Here are the robber barons--the Carnegies, the Rockefellers, and the Morgans -- carving out great empires of unparalleledwealth, turning their millions into foundations for public benefit. Here are Al Capone and J. Edgar Hoover, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Ku Klux Klan, Joe McCarthy and Dwight Eisenhower. Here is the American heartland at続きを見る |
所蔵情報
| 状態 | 巻次 | 所蔵場所 | 請求記号 | 刷年 | 文庫名称 | 資料番号 | コメント | 予約・取寄 | 複写申込 | 自動書庫 |
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中央図 自動書庫 | 253.07/E 88/50000224 | 1998 |
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050212000002246 |
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書誌詳細
| 一般注記 | "Borzoi Book" Includes bibliographical references (p. 667-689) and index |
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| 著者標目 | *Evans, Harold, 1928- Buckland, Gail Baker, Kevin, 1958- |
| 件 名 | LCSH:United States -- History -- 20th century
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| 分 類 | LCC:E741 DC20:973.9 |
| 書誌ID | 1000813352 |
| ISBN | 0679410708 |
| NCID | BA39392004 |
| 巻冊次 | ISBN:0679410708 |
| 登録日 | 2009.09.15 |
| 更新日 | 2009.09.15 |