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Author Hakim, Joy.

Title An age of extremes / Joy Hakim.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, [2005]
©2005

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 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 973.8 HAKIM    Check Shelf
Edition Third edition, revised.
Description 215 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Series History of US ; 08
Hakim, Joy. History of US (2005) ; bk. 8.
History of US ; 08.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 200) and index.
Contents Preface: Age of extremes -- Feature: Nation of practical idealists -- Carnegie -- Feature: How do you make steel? -- Bookkeeper named Rockefeller -- Mr. Storyteller -- Powerful Pierpont -- Monopoly: Not always a game -- Feature: Let's talk business -- Builders and dreamers -- Lady L -- Presidents again -- People's party -- Making money -- Hard times -- Feature: Woman who didn't like to be called a hero (but was one) -- Gold and silver -- Feature: Cheese sandwiches in the Klondike -- Cross of gold -- Some bad ideas -- Producing goods -- Feature: Mail (not the mall) for shopping -- Feature: God and money in America -- Harvest at Haymarket -- Workers, labor (and a triangle) -- Feature: Leaving Sicily -- Rolling the leaf in Florida -- Catching the day -- Telling it like it is -- Feature: Inferno in Chicago -- Bread and roses, too -- Fourth estate -- Ida, Sam and the Muckrakers -- Boon to the winter -- Wilderness is preservation -- Feature: Parks for a nation -- Gilded age turns progressive -- Teedie -- From dude to cowboy -- Spanish-American War -- Feature: War with Spain: Imperialism and open doors -- Aloha Oe -- Teddy bear president -- Jane Addams, reformer -- Henry Ford -- Birdmen -- William Howard Taft -- Feature: Some political theory: Discussion -- Schoolteacher president -- War -- Feature: ''We're coming over...'' -- Chronology of events -- More books to read -- Picture credits -- Index -- Note from the author -- Atlas.
Summary Covers the period of American history from the 1880s to World War I.
Subject United States -- History -- 1865-1921 -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1865-1918 -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918 -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- History -- 1865-1921.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1865-1918.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
ISBN 0195189019
9780195189018
0195327225 paperback
9780195327229 paperback
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