A twentieth century American reader : volume 1 /
Jack Lane
- 1a. ed.
- Washington, D.C. United States Information Agency 1999
- 584 p.
- A Twentieth Century .
THE PROGRESSIVE AGE. The end of innocence. The Native American awakening. The African American awakening. Legal common sense. THE REFORM IMPULSE. Conditions for reform. Conservative reform. Social reform. PROGRESSIVE IMPERIALISM. An argument for imperialism. The opposition to imperialism. Implementing imperialism. Implementing imperialism. PROGRSSIVISM: THE STATE AS PARENT. The progressive agenda. The new nationalism. The political agenda. THE GREAT CRUSADE: WAR IN THE MODERN WORLD. To save the world for democracy. Explaining intervention. Merchants of death. A covenanted peace. A covenanted peace. OVER THERE. Managing the war. Doughboys in battle. The poetry of patriotism. OVER HERE. Selling the war. Wartime hysteria. Rethinking the war. THE TWENTIES: HIGH TIDE OF MODERN AMERICA. The business of America is business. Explaining American business. Entrepreneurialism as service. THE JAZ AGE. The American voice. Defining a culture. Celebrating diversity. THE REVOLT AGAINST MODERNISM. Strangers in the land. Legislating morals. In defense of religion. THE GREAT DEPRESSION: THE MODERN ECONOMY IN TROUBLE. All we have to fear. Crisis on Wall Street. In defense of tradition. Organizing labor. THE POLITICAL RESPONSE TO THE DEPRESSION. Abandoning fear. The emergence of labor. The populist promise. THE CULTURAL RESPONSE TO THE DEPRESION. The southern agrarians. The hard-boiled hero. The radical response. WORLD WAR II: THE GLOBAL CRUSADE. Rendexwous with destiny. Preparing for war. Arming Brittan. The prelude to war. UP FRONT AND BACK HOME. Reporting D-Day. The face of battle. The universality of death.
LITERATURA AMERICANA SIGLO XIX--ESTADOS UNIDOS-CIVILIZACION