Americans in a Changing World: A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century

This critical approach emphasizes that history should do more than shed light on why a policy is inadequate or wrong - that it should also breed ideas about how to move from the past to the future.

Williams's ideas are so far out of touch with the reality of most people that his work was often dismissed out of hand. The notion, for example, that women could either have marketplace equality or a satisfying home life, makes this book extraordinarily outdated but still an interesting study in the outdated ideas it contains.