美国时代(插图史)——人民,权力与政治(附900余幅黑白照片)The American Century-People

分类: 图书,进口原版书,人文社科 Non Fiction ,
作者: Harold Evans著
出 版 社: Pimlico
出版时间: 1976-12-1字数:版次: 1页数: 710印刷时间: 2000/02/01开本:印次:纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 9780712665704包装: 平装内容简介
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 insightful
prose, 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.
目录
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION WHY IT CAN BE CALLED THE AMERICAN CENTURY
CHAPTER ONE THE LAST FRONTIER 1889-1893
CHAPTER TWO SHOWDOWN FOR DEMOCRACY 1890-1898
CHAPTER THREE THE LURE OF EMPIRE 1898-1905
CHAPTER FOUR OLD AND NEW AMERICANS 1880-1910
CHAPTER FIVE WORKERS TAKE A STAND 1893-1916
CHAPTER SIX GOOD TIMES, BAD TIMES 1914-1920
CHAPTER SEVEN THE TURMOIL OF NORMALCY 1920-1929
CHAPTER EIGHT THE DREAM TURNS TO DUST 1929-1939
CHAPTER NINE THE ROAD TO WORLD WAR II 1936-1941
CHAPTER TEN THE CITADEL OF DEMOCRACY 1941-1945
CHAPTER ELEVEN AMERICA LEADS 1945-1956
CHAPTER TWELVE THE DAWN OF A NEW FREEDOM 1954-1965
CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE WAR OF LOST ILLUSIONS 1963 -1975
CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY 1972-1980
CHAPTER FIFTEEN PUT OUT MORE FLAGS 1981-1989
AFTERWORD LET FREEDOM RING
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PHOTOGRAPHIC ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS