Study Guide These United States: The Questions of Our Past

Irwin Unger

Janice Brandon-Falcone

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These United States: The questions of our past

<p>From the first Asian migration across the Bering Strait to Sherman's famous march to the sea, this visually engaging book gives you everything you really need to know about American history from Independence to Reconstruction. It explores the essential facts that everyone should know and reveals the surprising, fascinating side of history. Get the lowdown on the Founding Fathers; Learn why the War of 1812 was fought, and how it set the United States on the road to Coca-Colonialism, and more. Plus INSTANT AMERICAN HISTORY is crammed with special features including chapter summaries, lists of who's who, biographical and little-known facts, and a host of photos, cartoons, and vintage illustrations.</p>

Instant American History: Through the Civil War and Reconstruction

Ballantine Books

<p>These United States: The Questions of Our Past</p>

These United States: The Questions of Our Past

Pearson

A portrait of a great American dynasty and its legacy in business, technology, the arts, and philanthropyMeyer Guggenheim, a Swiss immigrant, founded a great American business dynasty. At their peak in the early twentieth century, the Guggenheims were reckoned among  America's wealthiest, and the richest Jewish family in the world after the Rothschilds. They belonged to Our Crowd, that tight social circle of New York Jewish plutocrats, but unlike the others -- primarily merchants and financiers -- they made their money by extracting and refining copper, silver, lead, tin, and gold.The secret of their success, the patriarch believed, was their unity, and in the early years Meyer's seven sons, under the leadership of Daniel, worked as one to expand their growing mining and smelting empire. Family solidarity eventually decayed (along with their Jewish faith), but even more damaging was the paucity of male heirs as Meyer and the original set of brothers passed from the scene.In the third generation, Harry Guggenheim, Daniel's son, took over leadership and made the family a force in aviation, publishing, and horse-racing. He desperately sought a successor but tragically failed and was forced to watch as the great Guggenheim business enterprise crumbled.Meanwhile, "Guggenheim" came to mean art more than industry. In the mid-twentieth century, led by Meyer's son Solomon and Solomon's niece Peggy, the Guggenheims became the agents of modernism in the visual arts. Peggy, in America during the war years, midwifed the school of abstract expressionism, which brought art leadership to New York City. Solomon's museum has been innovative in spreading the riches of Western art around the world. After the generation of Harry and Peggy, the family has continued to produce many accomplished members, such as publisher Roger Straus II and archaeologist Iris Love.In The Guggenheims, through meticulous research and absorbing prose, Irwin Unger, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize in history, and his wife, Debi Unger, convey a unique and remarkable story -- epic in its scope -- of one family's amazing rise to prominence.

Guggenheims, The: A Family History

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Harper Collins, Inc.

A major historical biography of George C. Marshall - the general who ran the US campaign during the Second World War, the Secretary of State who oversaw the successful rebuilding of postwar Europe, and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize-and the first to offer a complete picture of his life. While Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Montgomery, McArthur, Nimitz, and Leahy waged battles in Europe and the Pacific, one military leader actually ran World War II for America, overseeing personnel and logistics: Chief of Staff of the US Army from 1939 to 1945, George C. Marshall. This interpretive biography of George C. Marshall follows his life from his childhood in Western Pennsylvania and his military training at the Virginia Military Institute to his role during and after World War II and his death in 1959 at the age of seventy-eight. It brings to light the virtuous historical role models who inspired him, including George Washington and Robert E. Lee, and his relationships with the Washington political establishment, military brass, and foreign leaders, from Harry Truman to Chiang Kai Shek. It explores Marshall's successes and failures during World War II and his contributions through two critical years of the emerging Cold War - including the transformative Marshall Plan, which saved Western Europe from Soviet domination, and the failed attempt to unite China's nationalists and communists. Based on breathtaking research and filled with rich detail, George Marshall is sure to be hailed as the definitive work on one of the most influential figures in American history.

George Marshall: A Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Debi Unger

Stanley Hirshson

Historical

HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio

The Best of Intentions: The Triumph and Failure of the Great Society Under Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Brandywine Press

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