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Known for its clear narrative voice, impeccable scholarship, and affordability, Alan Brinkley’s The Unfinished Nation offers a concise but comprehensive examination of American History. Balancing social and cultural history with traditional political and diplomatic themes, it tells the story of the diversity and complexity of the United States and the forces that have enabled it to survive and flourish despite division. Volume 2 covers 1865 to the present. This fifth edition features six new essays and enhanced coverage of recent events and developments in the continuing American story.
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Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN THE CONQUEST OF THE FAR WEST
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN INDUSTRIAL SUPREMACY
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN THE AGE OF THE CITY
- CHAPTER NINETEEN FROM STALEMATE TO CRISIS
- CHAPTER TWENTY THE IMPERIAL REPUBLIC
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE THE RISE OF PROGRESSIVISM
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO THE BATTLE FOR NATIONAL REFORM
- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE AMERICA AND THEGREAT WAR
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR THE NEW ERA
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE THE GREAT DEPRESSION
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX THE NEW DEAL
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN THE GLOBAL CRISIS, 1921—1941
- CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT AMERICA IN A WORLD AT WAR
- CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE THE COLD WAR
- CHAPTER THIRTY THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY
- CHAPTER THIRTY ONE THE ORDEALOF LIBERALISM
- CHAPTER THIRTY TWO THE CRISIS OF AUTHORITY
- CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE FROM “THE AGE OF LIMITS” TO THE AGE OF REAGAN
- CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
- Back Matter
