Roosevelt and the United States (Modern Times S.)

by D . B . O ' Callaghan (Author)

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  Paperback
  1966

  $4.70

• Used

  Paperback
  1991

  $4.70

  Modern Times Sourcebooks present stimulating new material beyond the range of conventional narrative textbooks. Special features include a wide-ranging collection of original source material, including written documents, photographs and cartoons, short, helpful introductions, placing the sources in content, questions encouraging the use of historical skills, both in individual and group work and a clear and simple format. This second edition outlines the main events in modern American history from 1990-1945, listing these by means of an examination of the career of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was personally and often centrally involved in many of them. It covers social and cultural developments and describes America in the 1920s, the Depression the New Deal, her part in World War II and the Cold War.