Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Review: Out of Our Past: The Forces That Shaped Modern America
Out of Our Past: The Forces That Shaped Modern America by Carl N. Degler
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Degler plots a largely sociological arc of American development seeing an at times painful but 'progressively' growing approach to an inclusive, guarantor society underpinned by by an unbreakable union of states offering ciitzen equality (settled by the Civil War after the spineless federal government that arose from the American Revolution) and an overt socialism that arose from the Great Depression. For instance, where it is not unusual for a book on American history to underscore how financial panics are cyclical, this book explores how anit-immigrant fervor is has also risen and fallen periodically. Degler looks back to a socialist Thirties and post-WWI unionism and prosperity from The Fifties see a future of a stronger central government offer more assurances.
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