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If you are going to be quizzed on every political player and party of the 1840's and 50's then this is the book for you. --Publishers Weekly"An engrossing narrative of a momentous time. A panel of authors who have written books for the Oxford University Press's [History of the United States] series talked about the periods of history they cover in the series. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Please enter your name. by. The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. But with recent political events, there has been some discussion and questions about this era, so I checked Amazon reviews and found this book to be well recommended. This article is within the scope of WikiProject Books.To participate in the project, please visit its page, where you can join the project and discuss matters related to book articles.To use this banner, please refer to the documentation.To improve this article, please refer to the relevant guideline for the type of work. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. I thought I knew American history better--didn't we all get through all this in high school?--but I'm not surprised how much we didn't learn. Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood 5. Start your review of The Oxford History of the United States: 1783-1917, Volume 1 Grand expectations: the United States, 1945-1974 \/ James T. Patterson.\"@, V. 6. Veterans, ethnics, blacks, women -- Unions, liberals, and the state: stalemate -- Booms -- Grand expectations about the world -- Hardening of the Cold War, 1945-1948 -- Domestic politics: Truman\'s first term -- Red scares abroad and at home -- Korea -- Ike -- World affairs, 1953-1956 -- The biggest boom yet -- Mass consumer culture -- Race -- A center holds, more or less, 1957-1960 -- The polarized sixties: an overview -- The new frontier at home -- JFK and the world -- Lyndon Johnson and American liberalism -- A great society and the rise of rights-consciousness -- Escalation in Vietnam -- Rights, polarization, and backlash, 1966-1967 -- The most turbulent year: 1968 -- Rancor and Richard Nixon -- Nixon, Vietnam, and the world, 1969-1974 -- End of an era? The glorious cause: the American Revolution, 1763-1789 \/ Robert Middlekauff -- v. 6. Fast-paced, it presents vivid portraits of major actors such as Roosevelt, Churchill, and Hitler, as well as of the hopes and fears of millions of lesser-known people caught up in the tumultuous years of the Great Depression and of World War II." Very Good One-Volume History of the Civil War, Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2015, This is a very good one-volume history of the Civil War. At first sight, this can be a daunting book; at nearly a thousand pages, it is a weighty tome. It tells the story of the building of a great nation that at one time was prepared to tear itself apart with both sides having the firm belief that they were fighting for freedom. What I found fascinating about this book is the author's coverage of American history 50 years or so before the Civil War, and this coverage explains much of how and why the war got started. There was a problem loading your book clubs. The war itself is described primarily in strategic terms, but with clear descriptions of the human costs of the conflict. The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 186… Please try again. Customers reported quality issues in this eBook. His narrative style is in the grand tradition of American historical writing, an unfaltering display of clarityand detail." Would you also like to submit a review for this item? McPherson not only wrote a masterful narrative, he also sourced the text impeccably. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff. It really shows how strong Abraham Lincoln was in his determination not to give in and to preserve one nation. If you want to understand the nuances, the wherfores and whyfores of a war that was to shape the world we live in today then dont leave this earth without first reading tbis exposition. Please re-enter recipient e-mail address(es). For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions. I've been doing some digging lately and want to start reading the Oxford History of the United States series. McPherson first describes the economic, social, political, and technological changes that occurred in the United States in the years before the conflict. Those who dispute his objectivity have ample resources, provided through detailed footnotes and an extensive bibliography, to research the author's claims. The North was an industrial economy and boosted by immigration. Among the historians connected with the series at one time … in the face of those unprecedented calamities. Written in clear, graceful prose for researchers, browsers, and general readers alike, this is the volume that addresses the totality of the American experience, its triumphs and heroes as well as its … —”The Oxford History of the American People” by Samuel Eliot Morison, Oxford University Press, New York City, 1965. As the Southern legislators fought for the expansion of slavery the political parties as we know them developed. Some 47 years ago, he pointed out in the magazine's October issue, C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter, two of the greatest names in postwar American historiography, laid out a plan for a multivolume history of the United States. This is the ultimate resource for authoritative information on the American Presidency, Congress, and Supreme Court.Compiled by three leading scholars, it contains the key figures, events, and structures that have animated U.S. government for more than 200 years. Then, he carefully and lucidly describes the political environment in America that leads to the election of Abraham Lincoln. "The Battle Cry of Freedom" (supplemented with some of Dr. McPherson's related books like "The Atlas of the Civil War," and others) is second-to-none. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States Book 6). Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States Book 6) Bored with the excessive political detail. It is a very well written and detailed account of the era. --David Lindquist, Indiana University, # The Oxford history of the United States\n, V. 10. You'd have to already have a pretty thorough grasp of (and interest in) American politics and voting for much of it to mean anything to you. --Boston Globe"Rarely does a work of historical synthesis combine such trenchant analysis and elegant writing as does Kennedy's spectacular contribution to the Oxford History of the United States. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. --Library Journal"David Kennedy is one of America's most distinguished historians, and Freedom from Fear is a remarkable achievement: deeply researched, insightful, and beautifully written. Grand Expectations - The United States 1945-1974 by James T. Patterson (1996) - No ISBN: Very Good. The book's final 400 pages admirably demonstrate exactly how the U.S. emerged victorious in WWII....Because of its scope, its insight and its purring narrative engine, Kennedy's book will stand foryears to come as the definitive history of the most important decades of the American Century." Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States Book 6) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 6, 2020. It is Samuel Eliot Morison's "legacy" to his countrymen and aims "to re-create for my readers American ways of living in bygone eras." --Philadephia Inquirer"No other book so vividly captures the spirit of those 17 years that forever changed America." The election of Lincoln was the final straw which brought about the conflict many years in the making. It is much more than a military history, an endless litany of battles and military campaigns and strategy. This is probably the best one volume book on the Civil War out there. The conflict that was to effect the lives that we live today. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe 6. This book tells in detail the history of the American Civil War. Mc Pherson covers every political aspect and translates these into real effects on tbe population of the States at tbat time. If you want an account of the war itself then you'll need a lot of patience or just skip to the middle of the book. It is a scholarly history; McPherson documents his conclusions, opinions, and quotes with voluminous endnotes. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Oxford History of the United States) Cover clean, binding tight, pages unmarked, dustjacket crisp but has a fold on the inside flap. At a time when we tend to bemoan our selfish preoccupations, it is bracing to read David Kennedy's moving account of our better selves. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. 6. I feel like I'm reading an encyclopedia. The glorious cause: the American Revolution, 1763-1789 / Robert Middlekauff --. --John C. Gilbraith, The Washington Monthly"An invaluable compendium of the hyperactive period that contains the Great depression and the Second World War." I'm interested in the lead up to the war but I'm forgetting the few interesting points with having to trawl through the messy politics of the day (not much different to today!) --John Kenneth GalbraithFreedom from Fear brings together in one place the epic story of how America faced the greatest challenges in its history. A new volume for a new century, The Oxford Companion to United States History covers everything from Jamestown and the Puritans to the Human Genome Project and the Internet—from Columbus to Clinton. Unable to add item to List. Does this book contain quality or formatting issues? Of course “bias” has various meanings; professional historians have legitimate biases that cause them to think some things are less important than others and thus, since space is at a premium, they leave things out. All rights reserved. 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The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. Product Information. It is the story of mankind attitudes toward equality and freedom and highlights questions that have not been totally resolved, even today in the 21st century some 153 years since tbe end of the war. Likely to become the standard one-volume history of our Civil War, this vivifies, with palpable immediacy, scholarly acumen and interpretive skill, events foreshadowing the conflict, the war itself and its basic issue: slavery. --Christian Science Monitor"One of our most broad-gauged American historians brings us that increasing rarity: a big book about a big subject....The Stanford scholar takes on the job of tracing the American people through three of the most important and important and widely written about epochs in the century...and provides us with consistently original and sometimes startling conclusions." 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The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States , this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States Book 5), The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States Book 3), Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Oxford History of the United States Book 4), Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States Book 9), The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States), Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (Oxford History of the United States Book 10), The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 3: Red River to Appomattox (Vintage Civil War Library), The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vintage Civil War Library), The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian (Vintage Civil War Library), Reconstruction Updated Edition: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-18 (Harper Perennial Modern Classics), Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. 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