One Nation Divisible: Class, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States Since 1938;revised Edition

By Richard D. Polenberg

Book Overview

"The most useful and reliable social history yet written on the United States in the middle decades of the twentieth century."-The American Historical Review. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140159991
• ISBN13: 9780140159998
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Critical pivot-points of American history since 1938

I remember reading this book in a Cornell undergraduate course in American history and recalling it being a remarkable work of American social history. Polenberg fuses little-known (but very telling) statistics and demographics with lucid descriptions of historical events and qualitative trends. I am astonished that no one has reviewed this first-rate work yet. Its subject matter penetrates almost every aspect of our private lives and public discourse today.