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Interviews | June 19, 2009

All posts by Dave Jim Lynch Makes Landscape Art... Out of Text

If Carl Hiaasen set one of his novels on a residential stretch of boundary line between British Columbia and Washington, or if Richard Russo's characters had relatives in the Pacific Northwest, the result might be something like Jim Lynch's Border Songs. Continue »


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Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era

by Nell Irvin Painter

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Publisher Comments:

A consistently engrossing, occasionally irreverent, always smoothly written history of America's painful entry into the modern age.-Kirkus Reviews Standing at Armageddon is a comprehensive and lively historical account of America's shift from a rural and agrarian society to an urban and industrial society. Nell Irvin Painter will be featured in the PBS multipart series The Progressive Era with Bill Moyers, which coincides with the release of the updated edition of this acclaimed work.

Synopsis:

"A consistently engrossing, occasionally irreverent, always smoothly written history of America's painful entry into the modern age."'"Kirkus Reviews

Synopsis:

Standing at Armageddonis a comprehensive and lively historical account of America's shift from a rural and agrarian society to an urban and industrial society. Nell Irvin Painter will be featured in the PBS multipart series The Progressive Era with Bill Moyers,which coincides with the release of the updated edition of this acclaimed work.

About the Author

Nell Irvin Painterlives in Princeton, New Jersey, and is Edward Professor of American History Emerita at Princeton University. Her other works include Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol; Southern History Across the Color Line; and Creating Black Americans.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780393331929
Subtitle:
A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era
Author:
Painter, Nell Irvin
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Subject:
United States - Reconstruction Period (1865-1877)
Subject:
United States - 19th Century/Gilded Age
Subject:
Modern - 20th Century
Subject:
United States - 20th Century (1900-1945)
Subject:
Labor & Industrial Relations - General
Subject:
United States - 19th Century
Edition Description:
Reissue
Publication Date:
April 2008
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
412
Dimensions:
8 x 6 in

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