false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174876649m/450296.jpg 450296 2 <div>"Large-scale economic change, job uncertainty, the politics of extremism and paranoia, arguments over America's international role, racial conflicts. Sound familiar?"(Fritz Lanham, <i>Houston Chronicle</i>) 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 <i>The Reckless Decade</i>, H. W. Brands demonstrates that we can learn a lot about the contradictions that lie at the heart of America today by looking at them through the lens of the 1890s. <br><br>The 1890s saw the closing of the American frontier and a shift toward imperialist ambitions. Populists and muckrakers grappled with robber barons and gold-bugs. Americans addressed the unfinished business of Reconstruction by separating blacks and whites. Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and other black leaders clashed over the proper response to continuing racial inequality. Those on top of the economic heap&#8212;Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan&#8212;created vast empires of wealth, while those at the bottom worked for dimes a day. Brands brings all this to life in a vivid narrative filled with larger-than-life characters facing momentous challenges as they worked toward an uncertain future.<br></div> 438937 1995 The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s total:14|5:3|4:5|3:6|2:0|1:0| 14 53 24 3 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Fri May 15 22:27:09 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 20:18:31 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 15:11:05 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 15:12:05 -0700 2008 s" in the 1980s might've been a better subtitle - as in portraits of rich, powerful, famous men of the 1890s. While this approach allowed some insight into the culture as a whole - a chapter on Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan sketched the impacts of industrialization, and a comp...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 19:33:48 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 11:40:22 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Oct 30 01:26:11 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 01:26:11 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Aug 19 21:47:50 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 21:47:50 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 04 15:54:02 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 15:54:02 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Jun 06 12:13:36 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 18:24:55 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Jun 02 10:29:25 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 10:29:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue May 19 09:56:16 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 09:56:16 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Apr 18 20:01:26 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 20:01:26 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Mar 21 09:39:12 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 09:39:12 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Mar 10 13:39:52 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 13:39:52 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Dec 06 12:40:32 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 12:40:34 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Dec 05 17:05:34 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 17:05:36 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Nov 03 16:08:55 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 03 16:08:55 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Mon Aug 11 17:23:40 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 17:23:47 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Jul 12 11:07:13 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 19:00:46 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sat Jun 28 09:03:33 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 09:03:33 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jun 25 07:42:18 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 07:42:18 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Fri Jun 06 11:29:57 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 11:29:57 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=450296