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Written by Clarence B. Carson - Audio book performed by Mary Woods - Unabridged Nonfiction - 10 CASSETTES

Publisher, Blackstone Audio Books (1993)

The fifth 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...."

This fifth volume of A Basic History of the United States commences with The Great Depression and takes us to the mid-eighties. As the author of Basic Economics (also available from Blackstone Audiobooks), Clarence B. Carson is well-suited to diagnose the causes of the stock market crash and the years of economic depression that followed, and his analysis is both logical and easy to grasp. Further discussions are equally engaging. These include:

The New Deal
The Pink Decade
The Second New Deal
The National Labor Relations Act
the start of Social Security
World War II
The Cold War
Welfare in the U.S. and abroad
the Warren Court
black activism
The Cultural Revolution
Vietnam
the rise of the Conservative movement
Nixon and Watergate
the Carter presidency
and the beginning of the Reagan years