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This is probably the most ambitious, skillful, and thorough-going effort ever made to write the history of the immediate past of a populous nation. To treat any ten years in the record of the United States is a difficult undertaking ; to treat the ten years just ended is a daring entreprise indeed. The scope of the Beards' book is comprehensive ; its detail keen and relevant. In addition to the political and economic history of the time, the Beards have covered the social, literary and artistic history of 130000000 people in the most crowded peacetime decade of our national career. The book falls naturally into two main sections : the one political and economic, the other social and cultural. The first half of the book conveys vividly and grippingly the revolutionary atmosphere of the times. Beginning with Coolidge and the Great Boom, Hoover's election, the Great Collapse, the mobilization of government, Roosevelt's rise to power, etc., it continues to the autumn of 1938. The later chapters discuss labor, science, the arts, entertainment, and many other topics with remarkable range and completeness. In their final chapter the authors conclude : "All the major events and tendencies of the midpassage - the economic crisis, political conflicts arising out of national efforts to grapple with it, the multiplication of public functions and responsibilities... - all bore upon the fortunes of democracy and at every turn called for a reconsideration of its nature,... its ability to cope with the complexities of a disjointed yet great society. Popular institutions long taken for granted were re-examined and analyses once lightly dismissed were siously reviewed as Americans became more conscious of democracy - of the contrasts opposing it and bidding for supreme favor everywhere". Everywhere the work is provocative and well informed. The authors deserve the thanks of all those who believe that history must try to crowd more closely than hitherto on the heels of the history-makers. No book could do more to make Americans understand the times in which they are living. Although the book is complete in itself, actually it forms the third volume of "The rise of american civilization", the famous work of these two most able historians.

États-Unis --- États-Unis --- Histoire. --- Civilisation.

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ETATS-UNIS --- INSTITUTIONS POLITIQUES --- FEDERALISME --- DEMOCRATIE

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Alaska (etats-unis) --- Decouverte et exploration