History of US An Age of Extremes 1880-1917

Name: History of US An Age of Extremes 1880-1917
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ISBN: 9780195153347

ISBN-10: 0195153340

ISBN-13: 9780195153347

Edition: 3rd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Joy Hakim

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For the captains of industry--men like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, and Henry Ford--the Gilded Age is a time of big money. Technology boomed with the invention of trains, telephones, electric lights, harvesters, vacuum cleaners, and more. But for millions of immigrant workers, it is a time of big struggles, with adults and children alike working 12 to 14 hours a day under extreme, dangerous conditions. The disparity between the rich and the poor was dismaying, which prompted some people to action. In An Age of Extremes, you'll meet Mother Jones, Ida Tarbell, Big Bill Haywood, Sam Gompers, and other movers and shakers, and get swept up in the enthusiasm of Teddy…

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List price: $15.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/15/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 9.13" wide x 7.56" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface: An Age of Extremes


Feature: A Nation of Practical Idealists



Carnegie


Feature: How Do You Make Steel?



A Bookkeeper Named Rockefeller



Mr. Storyteller



Powerful Pierpont



Monopoly--Not Always a Game


Feature: Let's Talk Business



Builders and Dreamers



Lady L



Presidents Again



The People's Party



Making Money



Hard Times


Feature: A Woman Who Didn't Like to Be Called a Hero (But Was One)



Gold and Silver


Feature: Cheese Sandwiches in the Klondike



A Cross of Gold



Some Bad Ideas



Producing Goods


Feature: the Mail (Not the Mall) for Shopping


Feature: God and Money in America



Harvest at Haymarket



Workers, Labor (and a Triangle)


Feature: Leaving Sicily



Rolling the Leaf in Florida



Catching The Day



Telling It Like It Is


Feature: Inferno in Chicago



Bread and Roses, Too



The Fourth Estate



Ida, Sam, and the Muckrakers



A Boon to the Writer



In Wilderness Is Preservation


Feature: Parks for a Nation



The Gilded Age Turns Progressive



Teedie



From Dude to Cowboy



The Spanish-American War


Feature: War with Spain--Imperialism and Open Doors



Aloha Oe



Teddy Bear President



Jane Addams, Reformer



Henry Ford



The Birdmen



William Howard Taft


Feature: Some Political Theory: a Discussion



A Schoolteacher President



War


Feature: "We're Coming Over ..."


Chronology of Events


More Books to Read


Picture Credits


Index


A Note from the Author


Atlas