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Professor Richard Carwardine, St Catherine's College, Oxford; calls
this work, a fresh and vividly written account, of Franklin
D.Roosevelt's life, covering his early days in one of the nation's
oldest and richest families; the effect of the polio that ravaged
him in his prime; and the role of his early political career and
his 12-year presidency.
An important addition to the Profiles in Power series, this
critical biography looks at Franklin D. Roosevelt, the most
dominant US politician of the 1930s and 1940s. Roosevelt led the
United States through the two great crises of depression and the
Second World War, making him one of the key figures of the
twentieth century.
Between 1910 and 1945 the United States transformed itself into a
Super Power. By 1945, with rivals in Europe and Asia shattered by
world war, she dominated global economic, financial and political
arrangements and monopolised the atomic bomb. This new Companion to
History is an indispensable guide to this critical period in US
history. It includes: chronologies listing all the major events,
both foreign and domestic; social and economic history, with many
tables based on inaccessible data; scores of mini-biographies;
listings of the major office holders; and maps.
Does anyone save historians remember the Wobblies? This nickname
for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the revolutionary
labor union founded in Chicago in 1905, not so long ago was part of
the vocabulary of labor and socialist movements everywhere. But few
who have heard of the Wobblies know much about their history, aims,
or achievements-or their impact on American labor. In this new
edition of his classic study of the Wobblies, Patrick Renshaw tells
the story of how they planned to combine the American working
class, and eventually wage earners all over the world, into one big
labor union with an industrial basis, a syndicalist philosophy, and
a revolutionary aim. "A careful, balanced work."-New York Times
Book Review. "A lively introduction to a trying and violent period
in American industrial history."-Journal of American History. "The
story of American trade unionism is a sorry one-dirty and
tragic-and this is one of the worst chapters."-Times Literary
Supplement.
Between 1910 and 1945 the United States transformed itself into
a Super Power. By 1945, with rivals in Europe and Asia shattered by
world war, she dominated global economic, financial and political
arrangements and monopolised the atomic bomb. This new Companion to
History is an indispensable guide to this critical period in US
history. It includes: chronologies listing all the major events,
both foreign and domestic; social and economic history, with many
tables based on inaccessible data; scores of mini-biographies;
listings of the major office holders; and maps.
Abridged, with an Introduction by Patrick Renshaw. Democracy in
America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart
Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the
nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both
sides of the Atlantic, above all in the emerging democracies of
Eastern Europe. De Tocqueville examines the structures,
institutions and operation of democracy, and shows how Europe can
learn from American success and failures. His central theme is the
advancement of the rule of the people, but he also predicts that
slavery will bring about the 'most horrible of civil wars',
foresees that the USA and Russia will be the Superpowers of the
twentieth century, and is 150 years ahead of his time in his views
on the position and importance of women.
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