Twelve Great Clashes That Shaped Modern America: From Geronimo to George W. Bush

by Anthony Arthur and John Broesamle

Book Overview

12 Great Clashes That Shaped Modern America looks at twelve of America's most vivid and influential ideological confrontations, creating a compelling portrait of the issues that have come to define... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321418263
• ISBN13: 9780321418265
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Finally, a book to make you love history!

Finally, a book for people who were never taught to love history. The characters materialize as though from fiction, yet everything is true. Readers who want to understand America's dilemmas today should start here.

Twelve Great Clashes = 12 Great Chapters

As they did in an earlier version of this splendid book, John Broesamle and Anthony Arthur explode the myth that history is boring. Twelve Great Clashes that Have Shaped Modern America explores and exposes the dramatic conflicts that have shaped American history. Unlike so many politically imbalanced books, this volume goes to great pains to present both sides of a confrontation. The book challenges those on the left and right to reconsider their beliefs and conclusions. In chapter after chapter, idealists confront realists-ideas bang into ideas with breakneck speed and lasting consequences. The book's final chapter examines the Bush/Kerry election, and does so with some surprising observations. While both serious and casual students of history will enjoy this book, AMERICANS will benefit from a read through these beautifully written pages. Twelve Great Clashes is history come to life-with vibrancy and passion.