American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century

by Professor Gary Gerstle

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This sweeping history of twentieth-century America follows the changing and often conflicting ideas about the fundamental nature of American society: Is the United States a social melting pot, as our civic creed warrants, or is full citizenship somehow reserved for those who are white and of the "right" ancestry? Gary Gerstle traces the forces of civic and racial nationalism, arguing that both profoundly shaped our society. After Theodore Roosevelt led his Rough Riders to victory during the Spanish American War, he boasted of the diversity of his men's origins- from the Kentucky backwoods to the Irish, Italian, and Jewish...Read more
  • ISBN10 0691102775
  • ISBN13 9780691102771
  • Publish Date 25 August 2002 (first published 29 April 2001)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 9 February 2017
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Princeton University Press