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A sweeping yet intimate history of the diverse individuals who, together, make up America. Ronald Takaki uses letters, diaries & oral histories to share their stories. Workers, immigrants, shopkeepers, women, children & others, their lives often separated by ethnic borders, speak side by side as Takaki frames their voices with his own text.
Ronald Takaki's "brilliant revisionist history of America" (Publishers Weekly) is a landmark work of American history retells American history from the bottom up, through the lives of many minorities - Native Americans, African Americans, Jewish Americans, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latino Americans, and others - who helped create this country's mighty economy and rich mosaic culture. A Different Mirror brilliantly illuminates our country's defining strengths as it reveals America as a nation peopled by the world.
A longtime professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of
California at Berkeley, Ronald Takaki was recognized as one of the
foremost scholars of American ethnic history and diversity. When
the first edition of "A" "Different Mirror "was published in 1993,
"Publishers Weekly "called it "a brilliant revisionist history of
America that is likely to become a classic of multicultural
studies" and named it one of the ten best books of the year. Now
Rebecca Stefoff, who adapted Howard Zinn's best-selling "A People's
History of the United States "for younger readers, turns the
updated 2008 edition of Takaki's multicultural masterwork into "A
Different Mirror for" "Young People."
Why did we drop the bomb? Was it really a military necessity? In this concise and tightly focused study, a prizewinning historian takes a fresh look at the record -- and shows how a desire to intimidate the Russians, anti-Asian prejudice, and, most tellingly, the psychological makeup of Harry Truman contributed to this century's most momentous military decision.
A sweeping yet intimate history of the diverse individuals who, together, make up America. Ronald Takaki uses letters, diaries & oral histories to share their stories. Workers, immigrants, shopkeepers, women, children & others, their lives often separated by ethnic borders, speak side by side as Takaki frames their voices with his own text.
Now in paperback: the acclaimed book in which America's preeminent multicultural historian scrutinizes the contradictions of the "good war" and — through the stories and voices of ordinary, ethnically diverse Americans — reveals how World War II represented a "double victory" against Fascism abroad and prejudice at home. From a Navajo code talker to a Tuskegee pilot to a Jewish American G.I. on the front lines — these are compelling stories that reveal the true, hidden history of the "greatest generation."
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