A History of Us, Book 10: All the People - Brossura

Hakim, Joy

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ISBN 10: 0195153383 ISBN 13: 9780195153385

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 2002

Riassunto

People call it "post-war," but All the People covers a period in U.S. history that features battles of another kind-from Cold War combat overseas to struggles for equality at home to learning to live with the threat of terrorism on U.S. soil. During these years, the United States began to be a nation for all its people, outlawing school segregation, protesting war in Vietnam, and campaigning for equal rights for women. From Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to seamstress Rosa Parks, extraordinary individuals led us back to the ideals espoused by the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. But mostly-as it always has been in the United States-it was ordinary citizens who marched and voted and hoped and dreamed and made things happen.

All the People includes the events of September 11, 2001, and a discussion of how many aspects of the terrorist attacks have brought to the forefront the qualities that keep America strong: representative democracy, freedom of speech and press, and, especially in the face of religious totalitarianism, the basic freedom of religious tolerance.

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• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0195153383
• ISBN 13: 9780195153385
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 160