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The cycles of American history / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1986]Copyright date: ©1986Description: xiii, 498 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0395378877
  • 9780395378878
  • 039545400X
  • 9780395454008
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973 19
LOC classification:
  • E183.7 .S373 1986
Other classification:
  • 89.90
  • 15.85
  • NK 4600
  • 3,6
  • 973
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- I. The theory of America : experiment or destiny? -- The cycles of American politics -- II. Foreign policy and the American character -- National interests and moral absolutes -- Human rights and the American tradition -- The Solzhenitsyn challenge -- America and empire -- Why the Cold War? -- III. Affirmative government and the American economy -- The short happy life of American political parties -- After the imperial presidency -The future of the Vice Presidency -- Vicissitudes of presidential reputations -- Democracy and leadership -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: An explanation of how the nation's past shapes its present and fortells its future.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-473) and index.

Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- I. The theory of America : experiment or destiny? -- The cycles of American politics -- II. Foreign policy and the American character -- National interests and moral absolutes -- Human rights and the American tradition -- The Solzhenitsyn challenge -- America and empire -- Why the Cold War? -- III. Affirmative government and the American economy -- The short happy life of American political parties -- After the imperial presidency -The future of the Vice Presidency -- Vicissitudes of presidential reputations -- Democracy and leadership -- Notes -- Index.

An explanation of how the nation's past shapes its present and fortells its future.

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