The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s

A rousing history that Douglas Brinkley called "the most accessible survey of America's turbulent 1890s ever composed"

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 that we can learn a lot about the contradictions that lie at the heart of America today by l...