The American Dream: From Reconstruction to Reagan, Volume III

by Essmond Wright and Esmond Wright

This volume begins in a period in which bitterness and revenge vied with hope and a new ideal of liberty. The Reconstruction imposed by the North upon the South is examined by the author from all points of view. He traces the steps by which the economy recovered and by which the USA emerged as the world's industrial giant. Factors as various as the anarchy of the Wild West and the gold rush, the completion of the railroad system, the maturing of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557865892
• ISBN13: 9781557865892
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 692 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.0" x 9.9"