【图书简介】 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.
【本书目录】 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
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