The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People
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The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People by Alan Brinkley
Offers a concise but comprehensive examination of American History. Balancing social and cultural history with traditional political and diplomatic themes, this book tells the story of the diversity and complexity of the United States and the forces that have enabled it to survive and flourish despite division.
In addition to being a best selling textbook author, ALAN BRINKLEY is the Allan Nevins Professor of History and former Provost at Columbia University. He is the author of Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, which won the 1983 National Book Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War; and Liberalism and its Discontents. His most recent books are John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963 and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century both published recently. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard and taught previously at MIT, Harvard, and the City University Graduate School before joining the Columbia faculty In 1991. In 1998-1999, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. He won the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Award at Harvard in 1987 and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia in 2003. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the board of trustees of the National Humanities Center and Oxford University Press, and chairman of the board of trustees of the Century Foundation. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and the University of Torino (Italy). He was the 1998-1999 Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780073513232 |
| ISBN 10 | 0073513237 |
| Title | The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People |
| Author | Alan Brinkley |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education - Europe |
| Year published | 2007-01-16 |
| Number of pages | 1080 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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