The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s | H.W. Brands
"Beautifully written and wonderfully absorbing, "The Reckless Decade" is the most accessible survey history of America's turbulent 1890s ever composed."-Douglas Brinkley 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 how we can learn about the contradictions that lie at the heart of America today by looking at them through the lens of the 1890s.
The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s | 
