One Nation Divisible: Class, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States Since 1930

by Richard D. Polenberg

Book Overview

"The most useful and reliable social history yet written on the United States in the middle decades of the twentieth century."-The American Historical Review.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140212469
• ISBN13: 9780140212464
• Release Date: September 1980
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Critical pivot-points of American history since 1938

I remember reading this book in a Cornell undergraduate course in American history and recalling it being a remarkable work of American social history. Polenberg fuses little-known (but very telling) statistics and demographics with lucid descriptions of historical events and qualitative trends. I am astonished that no one has reviewed this first-rate work yet. Its subject matter penetrates almost every aspect of our private lives and public discourse today.