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The American Dream
Esmond Wright
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Description for The American Dream
Hardcover. This volume begins in a period in which bitterness and revenge vied with hope and a new ideal of liberty. The Reconstruction imposed by the North upon the South is examined by the author from all points of view. He traces the steps by which the economy recovered and by which the USA emerged as the world's industrial giant. Series: History of USA. Num Pages: 576 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW3; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 184 x 256 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1416.
This volume begins in a period in which bitterness and revenge vied with hope and a new ideal of liberty. The Reconstruction imposed by the North upon the South is examined by the author from all points of view. He traces the steps by which the economy recovered and by which the USA emerged as the world's industrial giant. Factors as various as the anarchy of the Wild West and the gold rush, the completion of the railroad system, the maturing of the great centers of learning, the numerous manifestations of opportunity and strength led to the formation of a ... Read more
This volume begins in a period in which bitterness and revenge vied with hope and a new ideal of liberty. The Reconstruction imposed by the North upon the South is examined by the author from all points of view. He traces the steps by which the economy recovered and by which the USA emerged as the world's industrial giant. Factors as various as the anarchy of the Wild West and the gold rush, the completion of the railroad system, the maturing of the great centers of learning, the numerous manifestations of opportunity and strength led to the formation of a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Basil Blackwell Inc, US United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
Series
History of USA
Number of Pages
692
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781557865892
SKU
V9781557865892
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About Esmond Wright
Esmond Wright is a graduate of the Universities of Durham in England and of Virginia in the United States (where in 1940 he received his degree from Franklin D Roosevelt). After service in the British Eighth Army in the Second World War, he pursued an academic career, teaching at the Universities of Glasgow, London, Yale, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Ohio State. ... Read more
Reviews for The American Dream
"The American Dream covers a broad canvas, with insight, sympathy, and a critical eye. Esmond Wright knows the United States intimately, and he has tracked it through its many triumphs and its many crises. Few historians have the scope he has, and thus few books arise from such a clear understanding of the country. This is a wonderfully written, perceptively ... Read more