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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication date October 19, 2015
Pages 712
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780393239522
ISBN-10 0393239527
Dimensions 2 by 6.50 by 9.75 in.
Weight 2.62 lbs.
Original list price $39.95
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A powerful history of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power, told in sweeping scope and intimate detail.

In the winter of 1936, Franklin Roosevelt remarked in a fireside chat, “I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.” Certainly apt in the midst of the Depression, the idea of a nation in the making still resonates today as we measure the achievements and shortcomings of our democracy. Over the long twentieth century, Americans have worked, organized, marched, and fought to make the nation’s ideals a reality for all. This shared commitment to achieving an American democracy is the inspiring theme of These United States.

Acclaimed historians Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore and Thomas J. Sugrue forge the panoramic and the personal into an authoritative narrative. They give us insightful accounts of the century’s large events―war, prosperity, and depression, astute leadership and arrogant power, the rise and decline of a broad middle class. And they ground the history in the stories of everyday Americans such as William Hushka, a Lithuanian immigrant who makes and loses an American life; Stan Igawa, a Japanese-American who never doubts his citizenship despite internment during World War II; and Betty Dukes, a Wal-Mart cashier who takes on America’s largest corporation over wage discrimination.

The history begins and ends in periods of concentrated wealth, with immigration roiling politics and racial divisions flaring. Its arc over those hundred-plus years raises key questions: how far has our democracy come? Were the postwar decades of middle-class prosperity and global power a culmination of the American Century or the exception in a long history of economic and political division? Gilmore and Sugrue frame these questions by drawing the illuminating connections characteristic of the best historical writing.

16 pages of illustrations; 10 maps

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With Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore | from W W Norton & Co Inc (October 19, 2015)
9780393239522 | details & prices | 712 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 2.00 in. | 2.62 lbs | List price $39.95
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With Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore | from W W Norton & Co Inc (December 17, 2015); titled "These United States: A Nation in the Making: 1890 to the Present"
9780393264463 | details & prices | 615 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.90 lbs | List price $78.10
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