Ebook: A time of paradox: America since 1890 volume 1&2

Prologue to A time of paradox, America since 1890 -- Prelude: 1890s, bridge to the twentieth century -- Era of awakening, 1900-1919: TR, Taft, and the progressive impulse; America looks outward, 1900-1912; Nations within, the experiences of immigrants, minorities, and workers; Culture awakening, 1900-1919; Wilson, reform, and the coming of war; From world war to lost peace -- Era of trial and triumph, 1920-1945: 1920s, decade of fear, decade of excess; Republicanism from prosperity to the Great Depression; Franklin D. Roosevelt and the new deal; Culture, revolt and retreat; Interwar diplomacy; World War II, home front and battlefront, 1941-1945 -- Era of uncertainty, 1945-1968: Fair deal and the Cold War, 1945-1952; Peace and peril, 1953-1960; Affluent society; Cultural dissent; New frontiers, new anxieties at home, 1961-1968; Foreign anxieties, 1961-1968 -- Era of diversity, since 1969: Nixon years, 1969-1974; Healing and Malaise, the Ford and Carter administrations; Reagan rebellion; Culture of diversity; "Can we all get along?" the soul of the nation; From George Bush to George W. Bush -- Postlude: Presidency of George W. Bush -- Epilogue: Time of paradox.;[The author] explores the people and events that shaped America in the twentieth century ... [The book] analyzes the political, diplomatic, social, and cultural developments of the last century while focusing on the diverse and sometimes contradictory human experiences that characterized this ... period in American history.-Back cover.