Firsthand America - A History Of The United States V 2 8E

基本信息出版社:Wiley-Blackwell; 8th Edition, Volume 2 (2005年8月1日)平装:656页正文语种:英语ISBN:1933385030条形码:9781933385037商品尺寸:25.4 x 19.6 x 3 cm商品重量:1.3 KgASIN:1933385030商品描述内容简介All comprehensive United States survey textbooks, including this one, give full coverage to standard political, economic, diplomatic, and legal events. But these elements of history are largely the story of elites. This textbook also provides social history captured in the recognizable lives of ordinary people. Presidents, congressmen, and corporate executives are quoted throughout the book. So are soldiers, slaves, indentured servants, cowboys, working girls and women, and civil rights activists. Firsthand America, using more than 2,000 quotations, therefore gives due place both to the traditional leaders and to the myriad Americans never named in formal historians.作者简介David Burner, a professor of history at SUNY at Stony Brook, received his doctorate at Columbia, where he studied under Richard Hofstadter. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a Ford Fellow at Harvard. His early books areThe Politics of ProvincialismandHerbert Hoover: A Public Life. He is also the author ofMaking Peace with the Sixties(1996) andJohn F. Kennedy and a New Generation(2nd edition, 2003). He is currently writing a history of West Point.

Virginia Bernhardhas published two historical novels, set in seventeenth-century Virginia and Bermuda, as well as a biography of a Texas governor's daughter. She coeditedSouthern Women: Histories and Identities(1992) and teaches at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. Professor Bernhard has served on the Advanced Placement test development committee for United States history.

Stanley I. Kutleris Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin. He was the founding editor ofReviews in American Historyand is editor of “The American Moment” series at Johns Hopkins University Press. Among his many books areThe American Inquisition: Justice and Injustice in the Cold War(1982),Privilege and Creative Destruction: The Charles River Bridge Case(1989), andThe Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon(1990). In 1996, along with the advocacy group Public Citizen, he won a landmark decision to release the suppressed secret Watergate tapes, which led to his bookAbuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes(1997).