The American Century
Title | The American Century PDF eBook |
Author | Harold Evans |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 738 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN | 0712665706 |
This is America's story as it has never been told before, with award-winning editor and journalist Harold Evans documenting and celebrating the last hundred years with more than 900 original photographs, cartoons and illustrations.
Events that Shaped the Century
Title | Events that Shaped the Century PDF eBook |
Author | Time-Life Books |
Publisher | Time Life Medical |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
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The 125 events illustrate many of the happenings that have transformed America since 1900. Each event marks a milestone of change in realms such as science and technology, government, the nation's role in the world, the economy, the women's movement, or civil rights.
People who Shaped the Century
Title | People who Shaped the Century PDF eBook |
Author | Time-Life Books |
Publisher | Time Life Education |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780783555133 |
Offers brief profiles of hundreds of influential men and women, including political leaders, scientists, musicians, artists, writers, athletes, and business people
The Short American Century
Title | The Short American Century PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew J. Bacevich |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2012-04-02 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0674064747 |
In February 1941, Henry Luce announced the arrival of “The American Century.” But that century—extending from World War II to the recent economic collapse—has now ended, victim of strategic miscalculation, military misadventures, and economic decline. Here some of America’s most distinguished historians place the century in historical perspective.
In the Shadows of the American Century
Title | In the Shadows of the American Century PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred W. McCoy |
Publisher | Haymarket Books |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2017-09-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1608467740 |
The award-winning historian delivers a “brilliant and deeply informed” analysis of American power from the Spanish-American War to the Trump Administration (New York Journal of Books). In this sweeping and incisive history of US foreign relations, historian Alfred McCoy explores America’s rise as a world power from the 1890s through the Cold War, and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century. Since American dominance reached its apex at the close of the Cold War, the nation has met new challenges that it is increasingly unequipped to handle. From the disastrous invasion of Iraq to the failure of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, fracturing military alliances, and the blundering nationalism of Donald Trump, McCoy traces US decline in the face of rising powers such as China. He also offers a critique of America’s attempt to maintain its position through cyberwar, covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and worldwide surveillance.
100 Years of Hollywood
Title | 100 Years of Hollywood PDF eBook |
Author | Time-Life Books |
Publisher | Time Life Medical |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Motion pictures |
ISBN | 9780783555157 |
Gives history of movies, stars, and Hollywood.
What It Felt Like: Living in the American Century
Title | What It Felt Like: Living in the American Century PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Allen |
Publisher | New Word City |
Pages | 87 |
Release | 2015-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1612308880 |
This treasure of a book from Henry Allen, Pulitzer Prize winner and veteran feature writer and editor at the Washington Post, provides a vivid and captivating evocation of the social, cultural, and spiritual tenor of the twentieth century. Each of these ten chapters is a virtual time capsule written with keen intelligence, feeling, and an uncanny sense of the essential experiences of the era: the unexpected, idiosyncratic sights, sounds, occasions, and events that defined not just the time but the way we remember it. This is a book of myriad pleasures - a reminder of the richness and importance of the past.