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Written by Clarence B. Carson - Audio book performed by Mary Woods - Unabridged Nonfiction - 9 CASSETTES

Publisher, Blackstone Audio Books (1993)

The fourth volume of a comprehensive six-volume set.

This work has been described by The Freeman as "Probably the best available survey history of the United States... Dr. Carson has formed a richly woven tapestry of events and the ideas that spawned them. For Carson, history is not merely a collection of facts and dates, an account of explorations, settlements, westward expansion, wars, presidents, and elections. History is the product of the actions of countless individuals, each under the influence of certain ideas. And Carson explores those ideas, ideologies, and 'isms.' He shows how they were responsible for the settlement of this continent, the struggle for freedom, the westward expansion, the construction of schools, churches, factories, and the founding of new religious denominations. He explains why our ancestors fought for their beliefs, and strove to create a government, limited in scope, with checks and balances, that would not have the power to oppress the people...."

Starting with the "filling out" of the West, in this the fourth volume, Carson covers more than just the events and standard historical facets of these formative 50 years of American History. Included are crisp and incisive discussions of Darwinism and Socialism and their effects upon American society. Also touched upon are

regulation and the courts
civil service reform
silver, bimetallism, and inflation
regulation and the courts
the rise of labor unions
Populism and Progressivism
the Spanish-American War
the Panama Canal
World War I
Bolshevism and the spread of Totalitarianism
Nazism in Germany
monetarism and prosperity
symptoms of moral decline
and the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, and Coolidge