The Reckless Decade

America in the 1890s

By: H.W. Brands

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Paperback | 15 March 2002 | Edition Number 1

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"Large-scale economic change, job uncertainty, the politics of extremism and paranoia, arguments over America's international role, racial conflicts. Sound familiar?"(Fritz Lanham, Houston Chronicle) Just as we do today, Americans of the 1890s faced changes in economics, politics, society, and technology that led to wrenching and sometimes violent tensions between rich and poor, capital and labor, white and black, East and West. In The Reckless Decade, H. W. Brands demonstrates that we can learn a lot about the contradictions that lie at the heart of America today by looking at them through the lens of the 1890s.

The 1890s saw the closing of the American frontier and a shift toward imperialist ambitions. Populists and muckrakers grappled with robber barons and gold-bugs. Americans addressed the unfinished business of Reconstruction by separating blacks and whites. Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and other black leaders clashed over the proper response to continuing racial inequality. Those on top of the economic heap--Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan--created vast empires of wealth, while those at the bottom worked for dimes a day. Brands brings all this to life in a vivid narrative filled with larger-than-life characters facing momentous challenges as they worked toward an uncertain future.

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"Large-scale economic change, job uncertainty, the politics of extremism and paranoia, arguments over America's international role, racial conflicts. Sound familiar?" (Fritz Lanham, Houston Chronicle) "Beautifully written and wonderfully absorbing, The Reckless Decade is the most accessible survey history of America's turbulent 1890s ever composed." - Douglas Brinkley "Brands injects a needed dose of reality into the sunnier images of the era of Lillian Russell and Diamond Jim Brady." - Jules Wagman. The Plain Dealer "A first-rate overview of an age that, Brands correctly believes, has specific meaning for our own....[1]n The Reckless Decade the story, not the storyteller, is at the center, which is as it should be. Brands knows how to write narrative and how to make the complex comprehensible." - Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Military History Earliest Times to Present Day Modern History from 1700 to 1900

Prologue: Coming of Age, or Coming Apart?	p. 1
The Lost Frontier	p. 7
In Morgan We Trust	p. 42
How the Other Half Lived	p. 90
Blood on the Water	p. 128
The Matter with Kansas	p. 177
Plessy v. Crow	p. 215
Cross of Gold, Tongue of Silver	p. 254
Democratic Imperialism	p. 287
Epilogue	p. 336
Bibliography	p. 352
Index	p. 361
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