Traces the development of the idea of liberty from seventeenth-century America, and discusses the change in its meaning to people from all social levels

Liberty and Power 1600-1760 Volume One (Liberty in America 1600 to the Present)

History

Oscar Handlin

Lilian Handlin

Americas

Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.

In this book, the authors tell the story of the American Dream of Affluence. The authors view our economy as the end result of a complex tradition which linked productivity and freedom. Written in terms of the lives of people as well as events, the book includes personal stories of individual families, farmers, factory workers, industrialists, and businessmen. Spanning the entire life of the nation, "The Wealth of the American People" offers in one volume a highly readable interpretation of the growth of a nation, of its money, goods, business and industry, production, and overproduction. The authors say that America's capacity to produce has out-stripped its capacity to consume. They reveal how we have become a nation of paradoxes and ironies, where there are still people who are starving for food, others hungry for jobs, while a majority - stifled by overconsumption and boredom - starve for something to do. Here in this indispensable work is a portrait of Americans progressing from desperate want to uneasy comfort, from poverty to wealth, and ultimately to a confrontation with the limits of growth in a time of old values changing and past answers called into question.

The Wealth of the American People: A History of American Affluence

Mary F. Handlin

McGraw=Hill

Al Smith and His America

Biographies & Memoirs

Regional U.S.

Northeastern University Press

A compassionate account of Lincoln's life focuses on his struggle for intellectual development, his early years as a lawyer and his election to Congress, and the successes and sorrows of his later years

Abraham Lincoln and the Union (The Library of American Biography)

Lillian Handlin

Little. Brown and Company

The titles in the Library of American Biography Series make ideal supplements for American History Survey courses or other courses in American history where figures in history are explored. Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each interpretative biography in this series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life. At the same time, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times.

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life (2nd Edition)

J. William T. Youngs

Longman

One of the most eminent historians of our time offers here a perceptive guide to the study of history. Truth in History teaches how to read, how to analyze, how to discriminate. It is as helpful to the reader whose history is created daily in the news as it is to the professional historian whose field is in a crisis of disarray. 
 A Pulitzer Prize winner and mentor for more than a generation of American historians, Oscar Handlin instructs his readers in the fundamentals of his field. He tells us how to deal with evidence, how to discern patterns amid flux, how to situate ourselves in history, and how to recognize where fact shades subtly into opinion. He combines a historian's knowledge with a historiographer's breadth and a philosopher's temperament. He is concerned with a historian's limitations and with the ways one can operate honestly within those limitations. He brings a full appreciation of the past to his evaluation of what is modern. And while carefully examining recent developments in his discipline, he culls genuine achievements from the trends that confuse originality with true worth. 
 Handlin everywhere enlivens his discussion with brilliant details. As he pursues broad definitions of history and its uses, he also attends to specific subjects, showing how they bear directly on each other and on his concerns. He deals with Populism, capitalism, laissez faire, the two-party system, the New History, ethnicity, and roots, treating all with the flair of an accomplished man of letters. Only a scholar of Handlin's experience and expertise could have brought such a wealth of particular facts to an issue of such general importance--truth in history.

Truth in History

Belknap/Harvard University Press

Statue of Liberty (Wonders Of Man) (View amazon detail page) ASIN: 0882250043

Statue of Liberty (Wonders Of Man)

Newsweek

Abraham Lincoln and the Union (Library of American Biography)

Harpercollins College Div

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