A History of the American PeopleHarper Collins, 2009/06/30 - 1104 ページ "As majestic in its scope as the country it celebrates. [Johnson's] theme is the men and women, prominent and unknown, whose energy, vision, courage and confidence shaped a great nation. It is a compelling antidote to those who regard the future with pessimism."— Henry A. Kissinger Paul Johnson's prize-winning classic, A History of the American People, is an in-depth portrait of the American people covering every aspect of U.S. history—from politics to the arts. "The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures," begins Paul Johnson's remarkable work. "No other national story holds such tremendous lessons, for the American people themselves and for the rest of mankind." In A History of the American People, historian Johnson presents an in-depth portrait of American history from the first colonial settlements to the Clinton administration. This is the story of the men and women who shaped and led the nation and the ordinary people who collectively created its unique character. Littered with letters, diaries, and recorded conversations, it details the origins of their struggles for independence and nationhood, their heroic efforts and sacrifices to deal with the 'organic sin’ of slavery and the preservation of the Union to its explosive economic growth and emergence as a world power. Johnson discusses contemporary topics such as the politics of racism, education, the power of the press, political correctness, the growth of litigation, and the influence of women throughout history. Sometimes controversial and always provocative, A History of the American People is one author’s challenging and unique interpretation of American history. Johnson’s views of individuals, events, themes, and issues are original, critical, and in the end admiring, for he is, above all, a strong believer in the history and the destiny of the American people. |
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The First Dissentient | 47 |
The Catholics in Maryland | 55 |
The Primitive Structure of Colonial America | 63 |
The First Slave State | 73 |
The Significance of the Frontier | 523 |
Centrality of Railroads | 533 |
Carnegie Steel and American Philanthropy | 551 |
Trusts and AntiTrusts | 561 |
Chicago and New York | 569 |
The Urban Rich and Poor | 577 |
Church Bierstadt and the Limitless Landscape | 585 |
Bringing Luxury to the Masses | 591 |
Cotton Mather and the End of the Puritan Utopia | 81 |
Oglethorpe and Early Georgia | 89 |
The Rise of Philadelphia | 97 |
The Great Awakening and Its Political Impact | 109 |
PART | 119 |
Poor Quality of British Leadership | 127 |
The Role of Benjamin Franklin | 134 |
Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence | 143 |
The Galvanizing Effect of Tom Paine | 153 |
Washington the War and the Intervention of Europe | 159 |
Americas First Civil War | 171 |
The Constitutional Convention | 177 |
The Ratification Debate | 191 |
Citizenship the Suffrage and The Tyranny of the Majority | 199 |
The Role of Religion in the Constitution | 205 |
The Presidency Hamilton and Public Finance | 211 |
Success of Washington and His Farewell Address | 223 |
John Adams and the European War | 230 |
Jeffersons Ambivalent Rule and Character | 241 |
The Louisiana Purchase | 251 |
Madisons Blunders and Their Punishment | 257 |
Andrew Jackson the Deus Ex Machina | 267 |
PART THREE | 281 |
The Market in Cheap Land | 291 |
Spread of the Religious Sects | 297 |
Emergence of the South and King Cotton | 307 |
The Missouri Compromise | 317 |
The Advent of Jacksonian Democracy | 329 |
The War against the Bank | 353 |
Americas Agricultural Revolution | 359 |
Revolution in Transportation and Communications | 365 |
Polk and the Mexican War | 372 |
De Tocqueville and the Emerging Supernation | 389 |
The Ideology of the NorthSouth Battle | 399 |
Longfellow Poe and Hawthornian Psychology | 409 |
The Era of Pierce and Buchanan | 424 |
Ultimate and Proximate Causes of the Civil | 433 |
Centrality of Preserving the Union | 443 |
Jefferson Davis and Why the South Fought | 451 |
Why the South Was Virtually Bound to Lose | 461 |
The Churches and the War | 469 |
The War among the Generals | 475 |
The Triumph and Tragedy of Lincoln | 485 |
Andrew Johnson and the Two Reconstructions | 499 |
PART FIVE | 509 |
Indians and Settlers Cowboys and Desperados | 515 |
The Rise of Labor and Muckraking | 599 |
Populism Imperialism and the SpanishAmerican War | 607 |
Theodore Roosevelt and His Golden Age | 615 |
PART | 625 |
Education and the Class System | 631 |
Wilsons Legislative Triumph | 637 |
The Disaster of Versailles and the League of Nations | 648 |
Harding Normalcy and WitchHunting | 655 |
Quotas and Internal Migration | 661 |
Fundamentalism and Middle America | 671 |
San Francisco Los Angeles and Californian Extremism | 683 |
Cheap Electricity and Its Dramatic Impact | 689 |
The Social and Moral Significance of Jazz | 697 |
Race Prejudice Popular Entertainment and Downward Mobility | 703 |
The Age of Coolidge and Government Minimalism | 713 |
PART SEVEN | 725 |
Why the Depression Was So Deep and LongLasting | 735 |
Roosevelt and the Election of 1932 | 747 |
The Mythology of the New Deal | 753 |
FDR Big Business and the Intellectuals | 759 |
US Isolationism and Internationalism | 769 |
Roosevelt the Nazis and Japan | 777 |
FDR Stalin and Soviet Advances | 789 |
Nuclear Weapons and the Defeat of Japan | 799 |
The Truman Doctrine Marshall Aid and Nato | 805 |
America and the Birth of Israel | 819 |
Eisenhower McCarthyism and Pop Sociology | 827 |
Piety on the Potomac | 839 |
The Radical Shift in the Media | 847 |
Election and the Myth of Camelot | 853 |
The Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis | 859 |
Lyndon Johnson and His Great Society | 869 |
Getting into the Vietnam Quagmire | 877 |
Nixon and His Silent Majority | 887 |
Watergate and the Putsch against the Executive | 897 |
Congressional Rule and Americas Nadir | 905 |
Rearmament and the Collapse of Soviet Power | 927 |
FindeSiècle America and Its Whims | 940 |
Judicial Aggression and the Litigational Society | 947 |
The Sinister Legacy of Myrdal | 953 |
Language Abortion and Crime | 959 |
Family Collapse and Religious Persecution | 967 |
The Triumph of Women | 973 |
Index | 1059 |