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A famous historian demonstrates that one can learn a lot about the contradictions that lie at the heart of America today by looking at them through the lens of the 1890s.

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A rousing history that Douglas Brinkley called "the most accessible survey of America's turbulent 1890s ever composed"

Just as we do today, Americans of the 1890s faced changes in economics, politics, society, and technology that led to wrenching and sometimes violent tensions between rich and poor, capital and labor, white and black, East and West. In The Reckless Decade, H. W. Brands demonstrates that we can learn a lot about the contradictions that lie at the heart of America today by looking at them through the lens of the 1890s.

The 1890s saw the closing of the American frontier and a shift toward imperialist ambitions. Populists and muckrakers grappled with robber barons and gold-bugs. Americans addressed the unfinished business of Reconstruction by separating blacks and whites. Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and other black leaders clashed over the proper response to continuing racial inequality. Those on top of the economic heap-Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan-created vast empires of wealth, while those at the bottom worked for dimes a day. Brands brings all this to life in a vivid narrative filled with larger-than-life characters facing momentous challenges as they worked toward an uncertain future.

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"Beautifully written and wonderfully absorbing, The Reckless Decade is the most accessible survey history of America's turbulent 1890s ever composed."-Douglas Brinkley

Just as we do today, Americans of the 1890s faced changes in economics, politics, society, and technology that led to wrenching and sometimes violent tensions between rich and poor, capital and labor, white and black, East and West. In The Reckless Decade, H. W. Brands demonstrates how we can learn about the contradictions that lie at the heart of America today by looking at them through the lens of the 1890s.

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  • Title The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s
  • Author H. W. Brands
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 390
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Publication date 2002-03-15
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780226071169 / 0226071162
  • Weight 1.13 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.14 x 0.84 in (23.11 x 15.60 x 2.13 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - History - 1865-1898, Spanish-American War, 1898
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001057009
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.8

About the author

H. W. Brands holds the Melbern G. Glasscock Chair in American History at Texas A&M University. He is the author, most recently, of The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin and The Strange Death of American Liberalism.
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