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Informationen zum Autor By Blaine T. Browne and Robert C. Cottrell Klappentext Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed to acquaint students with major issues in American history through the lives of individuals, prominent and otherwise, whose activities and ideas were crucial in shaping the course of the nation's history. Employing a narrative style, each volume consists of thirteen chapters in which the lives of two individuals are examined in the broader context of major historical themes. Readers will find not only a diversity of individuals profiled, but also themes spanning political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual and military history. This combined biographical/thematic approach provides the reader with more extensive biographical information and a fuller examination of key issues than is commonly offered in core texts. Each chapter also offers study questions and a bibliography. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: A New Birth of Freedom Deferred: Benjamin R. Tillman, Ida B. WellsChapter 2: Final Frontiers, Vanishing Americans: Geronimo, Helen Hunt JacksonChapter 3: Wealth and Social Justice in the Industrial Age: Andrew Carnegie, Mary Harris "Mother" JonesChapter 4: Progressive America in the World: Woodrow Wilson, Randolph BourneChapter 5: Popular Culture in the New Era: Babe Ruth, Louis ArmstrongChapter 6: Defending Democracy in Hard Times: Floyd Olson, Eleanor RooseveltChapter 7: Questions of Loyalty in Peace and War: Charles Lindbergh, J. Robert OppenheimerChapter 8: Defining Dissent in Cold War America: Paul Robeson, Pat McCarranChapter 9: New Frontiers in Activism: Rachel Carson, Betty FriedanChapter 10: Racial Justice: Thought and Action: James Baldwin, Stokely CarmichaelChapter 11: The Agony of Vietnam: Robert McNamara, David HalberstamChapter 12: The New Right: Root and Branch: William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald ReaganChapter 13: Uncertain Times: America Enters the 21st Century: George W. Bush, Barack Obama...
