Twelve great clashes that shaped modern America
Subtitle: from Geronimo to George W. Bush
By: John Broesamle, Anthony Arthur
Contributors: Arthur, Anthony
Publisher: Pearson/Longman
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Social problems -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes; Social conflict -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes; United States -- History -- 1865- -- Anecdotes; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Anecdotes; United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes
Other titles: Clashes of will, great confrontations that have shaped modern America
Notes: Updated version of "Clashes of will, great confrontations that have shaped modern America"

Includes bibliography (p. 337-350) and index
Table of contents: title: I never do wrong without a cause : Geronimo, George Crook, Nelson A. Miles, and the ownership of America; title: A dance of skeletons bathed in human tears : George Pullman, Eugene Debs, and the railway strike of 1894; title: Cast down your bucket where you are : Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and equal rights for blacks; title: Damn-dam-damnation : John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and the environment; title: The world must be made safe for democracy : Woodrow Wilson, Henry Cabot Lodge, and America's place among nations; title: Ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished : Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the welfare state; title: All the evil of the times : J. Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, and the bombs; title: No substitute for victory : Harry S. Truman, Douglas MacArthur, and the Korean War; title: What in the name of God have we come to? : Richard M. Nixon, Daniel Ellsberg, and the Pentagon papers; title: Men are not the enemy : Betty Friedan, Phyllis Schlafly, and the Equal Rights Amendment; title: Race unfortunately still matters : Sandra Day O'Connor, Clarence Thomas, and affirmative action; title: Reporting for duty! : John Kerry, George W. Bush, Iraq, and the War on Terror