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Clashes of Will Great Confrontations That Have Shaped Modern America

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ISBN-10: 0321164385

ISBN-13: 9780321164384

Edition: 2005

Authors: John J. Broesamle, Anthony Arthur

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Clashes of Willsnbsp;is a collection of essays that explore the great confrontations of the United States since 1877, looking at eleven areas of controversy that are part of todays news, but whose sources lie in the past. By focusing on well-known people who represent these issues, the book creates stories that are selective, focused, and coherent, to paint a portrait of the United States in the past century and a half.
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Book details

List price: $66.65
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/24/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792

Preface
I Never Do Wrong Without a Cause
Geronimo, George Crook, Nelson A. Miles, and the Ownership of America
A Dance of Skeletons Bathed in Human Tears
George Pullman, Eugene Debs, and the Railway Strike of 1894
Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are
Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Black Equality
Damn-Dam-Damnation
John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Environment
The World Must Be Made Safe for Democracy
Woodrow Wilson, Henry Cabot Lodge, and America's Place Among Nations
Ill-Housed, Ill-Clad, Ill-Nourished
Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Welfare State
All the Evil of the Times
Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, and the Bomb
No Substitute for Victory
Harry S Truman, Douglas MacArthur, and the Korean War
What in the Name of God Have We Come To?
Richard M. Nixon, Daniel Ellsberg, and the Pentagon Papers
Men Are Not the Enemy
Betty Friedan, Phyllis Schlafly, and the Equal Rights Amendment
Race Unfortunately Still Matters
Sandra Day O'Connor, Clarence Thomas, and Affirmative Action
Conclusion
General Bibliography
Index