Clarence B Carson
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This is the first volume of a comprehensive five-volume set. “For Carson, history is more than facts and dates, {but} is the product of the actions of countless individuals, each under the influence of certain ideas. . . . 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.”...
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The fifth volume covers the Great Depression through the mid-eighties. Carson elucidates the causes of the stock market crash and the years of economic depression which followed. Further discussions are equally engaging, including the New Deal, Social Security, World War II, the Cold War, the Warren Court, the Cultural Revolution, Vietnam, the rise of the Conservative movement, Nixon and Watergate, the Carter presidency, and the start of the Reagan...
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This sound primer of basic economics tells all you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask about money, the market, prices, monopoly, competition, land, labor, capital, entrepreneurs, the Federal Reserve, and the distribution of wealth. For those desiring to educate themselves in economic principles, Carson will give you the tools to debate the warmed-over socialism presented by today's media. Carson defines and describes all of the major political-economic...
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Carson begins this third volume by diagnosing the root causes that eventually gave rise to sectionalism. Also examined are removal of the Indians, the plantation system, the Transcendentalists and American literature, the public-school movement, westward expansion, the election of Lincoln, and the Civil War.
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Carson's newest volume in his set brings U.S. history abreast with recent developments in government and culture. Among the topics he examines are materialism and statism, the welfare state, conservatism and liberalism, the Reagan and Bush administrations and their subplots, as well as the collapse of Communism, Americans at work and play, and the trend of self-employment.
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Starting with the settlement of the West, this fourth volume also covers the effects upon American society from Darwinism and Socialism, regulation and the courts, civil service reform, the rise of labor unions, inflation, populism and progressivism, the Spanish-American War, the Panama Canal, World War I, and more.
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