This is the first volume of a comprehensive five-volume set.

A Basic History of the United States, Vol. 1: The Colonial Experience, 1607-1774

History

Carson, Clarence B.

Americas

Blackstone Audiobooks

This second volume covers the Declaration of Independence through the fruits of independence. Carson combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages for a clearer understanding of the people and events, the triumphs and shortcomings, that shaped this nation.

Basic History of the United States: The Beginning of the Republic, 1775-1825

Computers & Technology

Programming

The fifth volume covers the Great Depression through the mid-eighties. Carson elucidates the causes of the stock market crash and the years of economic depression which followed. Further discussions are equally engaging, including the New Deal, Social Security, World War II, the Cold War, the Warren Court, the Cultural Revolution, Vietnam, the rise of the Conservative movement, Nixon and Watergate, the Carter presidency, and the start of the Reagan years.

A Basic History of the United States, Vol. 5: The Welfare State, 1929-1985

Explains the United States system of government as established by the Constitution and individual states.

Basic American Government

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Blackstone Pub

A Basic History of the United States, Vol. 6: America in Gridlock, 1985-1995

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

The Beginning of the Republic 1775-1825 (Basic History of the United States)

Business & Money

Carson's full-scale treatment of American history combines scholarly exactness with evocative passages that lead the listener to a clearer understanding of the people and events, the triumphs and the shortcomings, which have shaped this nation. Starting with the "filling out" of the West, this fourth volume goes beyond the standard historical facts and events of these formative fifty years of American history. Included are crisp and incisive discussions of Darwinism and Socialism and their effects upon American society. Also covered are civil service reform; regulation and the courts; the rise of labor unions; the Spanish-American War; the Panama Canal; World War I; Bolshevism and the spread of Totalitarianism; Nazism in Germany; monetarism and prosperity; and the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, and Coolidge.

The Growth of America 1878-1928 (Basic History of the United States)

The Welfare State 1929-1985 (Basic History of the United States)

America in Gridlock 1985-1995 (Basic History of the United States)

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