|
|
|
American History
by Robert J. Maddox
Product Group: Book
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies (1983-12)
ISBN: 0879674563
EAN: 9780879674564
Paperback: 224 pages
SKU: 070405211
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Vol.1 Seventh Edition in good condition. Couple of pages have pencil underlining. Slight edgewear with a spot on the back cover. Front cover some scratch. However, nice clean tight copy. A must have.
|
Editorial Reviews
|
Product Description
This bi-annually updated reader is a compilation of current newspaper, magazine, and journal articles on American history. The issues discussed include: reconstruction and the gilded age; the emergence of modern America; and new directions for America.
|
Customer Reviews
|
missed opportunities for civil rights
Rating  (4)
Date: 2006-11-09
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This long running text is now in its 19th edition. Impressive pedigree. The book consists of several page excerpts of noteworthy events spanning over a century. There is a conscious echo of today in the chapter of the 1871 War on Terror. An effort by the federal government to crush the Ku Klux Klan. The Al Qaeda of its time. This chapter may be the most interesting of the book. There is a sense of cognitive dissonance when reading it. The author draws explicit parallels to the terrorist organisations of our time. Including describing apologists who saw the KKK as freedom fighters.
But another tragic quirk is how history took a wrong turn. We see Negro legislators as full equals of the whites, and advocating that the federal government protect the basic human rights of terrorised Negroes. What if the government had successfully done so? Civil rights could have been advanced some 90 years earlier. Reading the chapter gives a terrible sense of missed opportunities.
|
|
|
|
|