美国时代

作者简介

The British may have claimed the 19th century by force, and the Chinese may cast a long shadow over the 21st, but the 20th century belongs to the United States. This is the premise behind Harold Evans's robust, sweeping, spectacularly illustrated account of the people and events that gave rise to America's political and cultural dominance in the last 100 years.    Evans begins in the 1880s, when it was still uncertain whether America, with its diverse peoples, manifold beliefs and impossible ideals, would even survive its own democratic experiment or manage to reconcile an increasingly headlong materialism with the original virtues of the Republic. He shows how, from that time forward, the citizens of the United States saw increases in wealth and personal freedom unequalled in history, paralleled by the growing power and influence of the country abroad. He covers upheavals and victories with succinct and insightfulprose, aided by a splendid array of 900 fresh, remarkable images. Here are the central political personalities and dramas, the triumphs and the scandals. Here are the Presidents, nineteen of them from a Civil War general to a movie star; here are AI Capone and J. Edgar Hoover, Martin Luther King and the Ku Klux Klan; here is America at peace in the twenties and at war with itself in the sixties.

书籍目录

PREFACEINTRODUCTION WHY IT CAN BE CALLED THE AMERICAN CENTURYCHAPTER  ONE THE LAST FRONTIER 1889-1893CHAPTER  TWO SHOWDOWN FOR DEMOCRACY 1890-1898CHAPTER  THREE THE LURE OF EMPIRE 1898-1905CHAPTER  FOUR OLD AND NEW AMERICANS 1880-1910CHAPTER  FIVE WORKERS TAKE A STAND 1893-1916CHAPTER  SIX GOOD TIMES, BAD TIMES 1914-1920CHAPTER SEVEN THE TURMOIL OF NORMALCY 1920-1929CHAPTER  EIGHT THE DREAM TURNS TO DUST 1929-1939CHAPTER  NINE THE ROAD TO WORLD WAR II 1936-1941CHAPTER  TEN THE CITADEL OF DEMOCRACY 1941-1945CHAPTER  ELEVEN AMERICA LEADS 1945-1956CHAPTER  TWELVE THE DAWN OF A NEW FREEDOM 1954-1965CHAPTER  THIRTEEN THE WAR OF LOST ILLUSIONS 1963 -1975CHAPTER  FOURTEEN THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY 1972-1980CHAPTER  FIFTEEN PUT OUT MORE FLAGS 1981-1989AFTERWORD LET FREEDOM RINGACKNOWLEDGMENTSPHOTOGRAPHIC ACKNOWLEDGMENTSBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEXILLUSTRATION CREDITS

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