Author:
Broesamle, John J.
Imprint:New York : Pearson Longman, 2006
Descriptionvii, 360 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
Note:Updated version of "Clashes of wills, great confrontations that have shaped modern America."
Note:I never do wrong without a cause: Geronimo, George Crook, Nelson A Miles, and the ownership of America -- A dance of skeletons bathed in human tears: George Pullman, Eugene Debs, and the railway strike of 1894 -- Cast down your bucket where you are: Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and equal rights for blacks -- Damn-dam-damnation: John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and the environment -- The world must be made safe for democracy: Woodrow Wilson, Henry Cabot Lodge, and America's place among the nations -- ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished ; Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the welfare state -- All the evil of the times: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, and the bombs -- No substitute for victory: Harry S. Truman, Douglas McArthur, and the Korean War -- What in the name of God have we come to? : Richard M. Nixon, Daniel Ellsberg, and the Pentagon papers -- Men are not the enemy: Betty Friedan, Phyllis Schlafly, and the Equal Rights Amendment -- Race unfortunately still matters: Sandra Day O'connor, Clarence Thomas, and affirmative action -- Reporting for duty!: John Kerry, George W. Bush, Iraq and the War on Terror.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliography (p.337-350) and index
