Penguin History of the United States of America (132 page)

C. VANN WOODWARD,
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
(New York, Oxford University Press, 3rd revised edn, 1974).

LINCOLN STEFFENS,
The Shame of the Cities
.

JOHN M. BLUM,
The Republican Roosevelt
(Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1954).

PATRICK RENSHAW,
The Wobblies
(London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1967).

GEORGE E. MOWRY,
The California Progressives
(Berkeley, University of California Press, 1951).

JOHN M. BLUM,
Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Morality
(Boston, Little, Brown, 1956).

GEORGE KENNAN,
American Diplomacy 1900–1950
(Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1951).

BARBARA TUCHMAN,
The Zimmermann Telegram
(New York, Dell, 1958).

GENE SMITH,
When the Cheering Stopped
(London, Hutchinson, 1964).

WILLIAM E. LEUCHTENBURG,
The Perils of Prosperity 1914–1932
(Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1958).

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD,
The Great Gatsby
.

ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Prohibition
(London, Faber, 1962).

SAMUEL LUBELL,
The Future of American Politics
(Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 2nd revised edn 1956).

J. K. GALBRAITH,
The Great Crash
(London, Hamish Hamilton, 1955).

STUDS TERKEL,
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
(New York, Pantheon, 1970).

WILLIAM E. LEUCHTENBURG,
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
(New York and London, Harper & Row, 1963).

JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS,
Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox
(New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1956).

D. W. BROGAN,
The American Political System
(London, Hamish Hamilton, with new introduction, 1943).

DEAN ACHESON,
Morning and Noon
(London, Hamish Hamilton, 1967).

RICHARD POLENBERG,
One Nation Divisible
(Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1980).

HERBERTFEIS,
The Road to Pearl Harbor
(Princeton,
NJ
, Princeton University Press, 1950).

JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS,
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom
(London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971).

DANIEL YERGIN
Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War and the National Security State
(Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1980).

DEANACHESON,
Present at the Creation
(London, Hamish Hamilton, 1969).

DAVID CAUTE
,
The Great Fear
(London, Seeker & Warburg, 1978).

RICHARD H. ROVERE,
Senator Joe McCarthy
(London, Methuen, 1960).

THEODORE H. WHITE,
The Making of the President 1960
(London, Cape, 1962).

TAYLOR BRANCH,
Parting the Waters
(New York, Simon & Schuster, 1988).

DAVID J. GARROW
,
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King and Southern Christian Leadership Conference
(New York, Morrow, 1986).

MICHAEL HARRINGTON,
The Other America: Poverty in the United States
(Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, revised edn, 1971).

ROBERT F. KENNEDY,
Thirteen Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis
(London, Macmillan, 1969).

GERALD POSNER,
Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of
JFK
(London, Warren, 1994).

NEIL SHEEHAN
(ed.),
The Pentagon Papers
(Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1971).

MICHAEL R. BESCHLOSS,
Taking Charge: the Johnson White House Tapes, 1963–1964
(New York, Simon and Schuster, 1998).

GUENTER LEWY
,
America in Vietnam
(New York, Oxford University Press, 1978).

J. ANTHONY LUKAS,
Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years
(New York, Viking, 1976).

DAVID P. CALLEO
,
The Imperious Economy
(Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1982).

MICHAEL FRENCH,
US Economic History Since 1945
(Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1997).

WILLIAM ISSEL,
Social Change in the United States 1945–1983
(London, Macmillan, 1985).

JOHN DUMBRELL,
American Foreign Policy: Carter to Clinton
(London, Macmillan, 1997).

IWANW. MORGAN
,
Beyond the Liberal Consensus: A Political History of the United States Since 1965
(London, Hurst, 1994).

Index

Abilene, Kansas,
246
,
379

Abolitionism
(see also
Anti-slavery
),
199
,
283
,
287
,
290
,
292–4
,
295
,
296
,
298
,
301
,
302
,
304
,
305
,
306
,
307
,
348
,
412
,
414
,
620

and John Brown,
308–9

and Civil War,
323–4
,
328
,
329
,
331
,
332

Abortion,
678
,
679–80

Acheson, Dean,
592
,
593
,
594
,
602
,
625

quoted
,
519
,
597

Adams, Abigail,
171n

Adams, Charles Francis,
301
,
312

Adams, Henry,
410
,
449

Adams, John (Pres. 1797–1801),
50
,
155
,
176
,
187
,
193
,
195
,
210
,
263
,
271
,
500

as patriot leader,
137

and Declaration of Independence,
174–5

and Peace of Paris,
185

as Vice-Pres.,
257

as Pres.,
209
,
211–12
,
252n
,
261–2
,
272

quoted
, on James Otis,
125
; on revolutionary crowd,
127
; on the Revolution,
135
; on Samuel Adams,
138
; on Boston taverns,
139
; on Boston Tea Party,
159

also quoted
,
152
, I
56n
,
176
,
178

Adams, John Quincy (Pres. 1825–
9
),
66
,
254
,
255
,
266
,
271
,
272–3
,
276
,
296
,
370
,
449

Adams, Samuel,
400
,
425
,
598

early life and character,
138–9

as first political boss,
139

as patriot leader,
141n
,
147–50
,
153–4
,
156
,
159

as agitator,
152
,
273

and Boston Tea Party,
159

after 1783,
190
,
195
,
256

and ratification of Constitution,
201–2

Aerospace industry,
566
,
587

‘affirmative action’,
676

Afghanistan,
681
,
682
,
690
,
692

Africa,
4
,
11
,
28
,
101–3
,
280–81
,
295
,
438
,
450
,
619
,
681

African-Americans
(see also
Free blacks
;
Freedmen, black
;
Slavery
;
Slaves
),
62
,
95
,
99
,
101
,
102–3
,
105
,
243
,
280
,
284
,
288–9

in revolutionary crowd,
127

in the North,
127
,
293
,
372
,
619
,
620
,
622
,
624
,
675

in Civil War,
332
,
334

and Abraham Lincoln,
344

under Reconstruction,
349–72
passim

in New York City,
401

in the South,
433

and First World War,
478–9
,
624

in the Depression,
620

and New Deal,
538–9
,
545
,
547
,
582

since 1941,
588
,
595
,
615–44

black middle class,
626
,
642
,
644

and Vietnam War,
646
,
659

Bakke case,
676

Africans,
28
,
64
,
68
,
99
,
103
,
107
,
108
,
199
,
281
,
285
,
287

Agnew, Spiro T.,
667

Agricultural Adjustment Act,
525
,
538

Agricultural Adjustment Administration (‘Triple A’),
535–9
,
549

Agriculture, Secretary of,
536
,
539
,
611

Agriculture
(see also
Cotton
;
Farmers
;
Maize
;
Wheat
),
250
,
286
,
288
,
358
,
366
,
379–80
,
396
,
618
,
637

Agriculture, US Department of,
454

Aguinaldo, Emilio,
441

Air Force, US,
571
,
587

Alabama,
67
,
187
,
227
,
283
,
286
,
294
,
307
,
311
,
361
,
364
,
372
,
423
,
618

and civil rights movement,
627
,
635
,
660–61

Alabama, Florida
, and
Shenandoah
, CSS,
334

Alabama, University of,
661

Alamance River, Battle of the,
153

Alamogordo, New Mexico,
585

Alaska,
421
,
499
,
688n

Purchase of,
356

Albany, New York,
35

Albany Plan and conference,
109
,
106
,
131
,
142

Albany Regency,
267
,
269
,
272
,
276
,
369

Albemarle Sound,
52

Aldrich, Sen. Nelson Wilmarth,
456
,
492

Algeciras Conference,
468

Algeria,
652

Alien and Sedition Acts (1798),
262
,
272–3
,
478

Allegheny mountains,
19
,
179

Allen, Rev. John,
179

Allen, William,
96

Altgeld, Gov. John Peter,
430
,
431
,
433

Alton, Illinois,
293n

Amalgamated Clothing Workers,
535

America, Central,
5
,
11

America First Committee,
558
,
559
,
567–8

American Colonisation

Society,
295

American Federation of Labor (AFL),
404
,
419–21
,
459
,
477
,
506
,
530
,
531–2
,
535
,
567
,
603
,
621

American Historical Association,
393

American Legion,
588

American Missionary Association,
361

American Party
see
‘Know Nothings’

American Railway Union,
421

American system,
271–2
,
278

‘American way of life’,
93
,
192
,
273
,
437
,
588

Americanism,
264
,
444
,
582

Amherst, Gen. Sir Jeffrey,
112
,
120

Amsterdam,
36
,
39

Anden regime see
Old order

Anderson, Major Robert,
314
,
316

Angell, Norman,
476

Anglicanism
see
Church of England
;
Episcopalianism

Anglo-American,
55–6
,
57–8
,
64

Animals, North American, extinction of,
9

Annapolis, Maryland,
194

US Naval Academy,
656

Anne, Queen,
12
,
78
,
85

Anthony, Susan Brownell,
464n

Anti-Americanism,
658

Anti-Catholicism,
162n
,
404
,
465
,
504

Anti-colonialism,
484
,
578
,
647

Anti-communism,
591
,
592–3
,
602
,
651
,
652

Anti-Federalism,
200–204
,
206
,
213
,
315

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