Taking Sides: Clashing Views in United States History, Volume 2: Reconstruction to the Present
by Madaras, Larry; Sorelle, James M.Edition: 12th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-09-27
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
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Summary
Taking Sides: Clashing Views in United States History, Volume 2, Twelfth Edition is a debate-style reader designed to introduce students to controversies in United States history. The readings, which represent the arguments of leading historians, reflect a variety of viewpoints and have been selected for their liveliness and substance and because of their value in a debate framework. For each issue, the editor provides a concise introduction and postscript summary. The introduction sets the stage for the debate as it is argued in the "yes" and "no" readings. The postscript briefly reviews the opposing views and suggests additional readings on the controversial issue under discussion. By requiring students to analyze opposing viewpoints and reach considered judgments, Taking Sides actively develops students' critical thinking skills. It is this development of critical thinking skills that is the ultimate purpose of the volumes in the widely acclaimed Taking Sides program. Book jacket.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. v |
| Introduction | p. xvii |
| Reconstruction and the Industrial Revolution | p. 1 |
| Is History True? | p. 2 |
| Yes: Oscar Handlin, from Truth in History (The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1979) | p. 4 |
| No: William H. McNeill, from "Mythistory, or Truth, Myth, History, and Historians," American Historical Review (February 1986) | p. 12 |
| Was John D. Rockefeller a "Robber Baron"? | p. 24 |
| Yes: Matthew Josephson, from The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists, 1861-1901 (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962) | p. 26 |
| No: Ron Chernow, from Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Random House, 1998) | p. 36 |
| Did William M. Tweed Corrupt Post-Civil War New York? | p. 48 |
| Yes: Alexander B. Callow, Jr., from The Tweed Ring (Oxford University Press, 1966) | p. 50 |
| No: Leo Hershkowitz, from Tweed's New York Another Look (Anchor Press, 1977) | p. 59 |
| Did the Industrial Revolution Disrupt the American Family? | p. 68 |
| Yes: Elaine Tyler May, from "The Pressure to Provide: Class, Consumerism, and Divorce in Urban America, 1880-1920," Journal of Social History (Winter 1978) | p. 70 |
| No: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Robert Korstad, and James Leloudis, from "Cotton Mill People: Work, Community, and Protest in the Textile South, 1880-1940," The American Historical Review (April 1986) | p. 79 |
| Did Nineteenth-Century Women of the West Fail to Overcome the Hardships of Living on the Great Plains? | p. 90 |
| Yes: Christine Stansell, from "Women on the Great Plains 1865-1890," Women's Studies (vol. 4, 1976) | p. 92 |
| No: Glenda Riley, from A Place to Grow: Women in the American West (Harlan Davidson, 1992) | p. 100 |
| The Response to Industrialism: Reform and War | p. 119 |
| Did Booker T. Washington's Philosophy and Actions Betray the Interests of African Americans? | p. 120 |
| Yes: W. E. B. Du Bois, from The Souls of Black Folk (1903, Reprint, Fawcett Publications, 1961) | p. 122 |
| No: Louis R. Harlan, from "Booker T. Washington and the Politics of Accommodation," in John Hope Franklin and August Meier, eds., Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century (University of Illinois Press, 1982) | p. 130 |
| Was Early Twentieth-Century American Foreign Policy in the Caribbean Basin Dominated by Economic Concerns? | p. 141 |
| Yes: Walter LaFeber, from Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (W.W. Norton, 1983) | p. 143 |
| No: David Healy, from Drive to Hegemony: The United States in the Caribbean, 1898-1917 (University of Wisconsin Press, 1988) | p. 152 |
| Did the Progressives Fail? | p. 165 |
| Yes: Richard M. Abrams, from "The Failure of Progressivism," in Richard Abrams and Lawrence Levine, eds., The Shaping of the Twentieth Century, 2d ed. (Little, Brown, 1971) | p. 167 |
| No: Arthur S. Link and Richard L. McCormick, from Progressivism (Harlan Davidson, 1983) | p. 177 |
| Was Prohibition a Failure? | p. 189 |
| Yes: David E. Kyvig, from Repealing National Prohibition, 2d ed. (The University of Chicago Press, 1979, 2000) | p. 191 |
| No: John C. Burnham, from "New Perspectives on the Prohibition 'Experiment' of the 1920s," Journal of Social History, Volume 2 (Fall 1968) | p. 201 |
| Did the New Deal Prolong the Great Depression? | p. 212 |
| Yes: Gary Dean Best, from Pride, Prejudice, and Politics: Roosevelt Versus Recovery, 1933-1938 (Praeger, 1990) | p. 214 |
| No: Roger Biles, from A New Deal for the American People (Northern Illinois University Press, 1991) | p. 225 |
| Was It Necessary to Drop the Atomic Bomb to End World War II? | p. 234 |
| Yes: Robert James Maddox, from "The Biggest Decision: Why We Had to Drop the Atomic Bomb," American Heritage (May/June 1995) | p. 236 |
| No: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, from Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005) | p. 245 |
| The Cold War and Beyond | p. 259 |
| Did Communism Threaten America's Internal Security After World War II? | p. 260 |
| Yes: John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, from Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America (Yale University Press, 1999) | p. 262 |
| No: Richard M. Fried, from Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective (Oxford University Press, 1990) | p. 273 |
| Did the Brown Decision Fail to Desegregate and Improve the Status of African Americans? | p. 286 |
| Yes: Peter Irons, from Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision (Viking Press, 2002) | p. 288 |
| No: Richard Kluger, from Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality (Alfred A. Knopf, 1976, 2004) | p. 295 |
| Was the Americanization of the War in Vietnam Inevitable? | p. 306 |
| Yes: Brian VanDeMark, from Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War (Oxford University Press, 1991) | p. 308 |
| No: H.R. McMaster, from Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam (HarperCollins, 1997) | p. 317 |
| Was Richard Nixon America's Last Liberal President? | p. 328 |
| Yes: Joan Hoff-Wilson, from "Richard M. Nixon: The Corporate Presidency," in Fred I. Greenstein, ed., Leadership in the Modern Presidency (Harvard University Press, 1988) | p. 330 |
| No: Bruce J. Schulman, from The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics (The Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2001) | p. 340 |
| Did President Reagan Win the Cold War? | p. 355 |
| Yes: John Lewis Gaddis, from The Cold War: A New History (Penguin Press, 2005) | p. 357 |
| No: Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberry, from "Who Won the Cold War?" Foreign Policy (Summer 1992) | p. 369 |
| Should America Remain a Nation of Immigrants? | p. 382 |
| Yes: Tamar Jacoby, from "Too Many Immigrants?" Commentary (April 2002) | p. 384 |
| No: Patrick J. Buchanan, from The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization (Thomas Dunne Books, 2002) | p. 395 |
| Is George W. Bush the Worst President in American History? | p. 407 |
| Yes: Sean Wilentz, from "The Worst President in History?" Rolling Stone (May 4, 2006) | p. 411 |
| No: Conrad Black, from "George W. Bush, FDR, and History," American Spectator (April 2005) | p. 424 |
| Contributors | p. 439 |
| Index | p. 445 |
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