This unusual book traces the development of the feminist movement in America and, to a lesser extent, in England. The comparison between the movements is enlightening. Professor O’Neill starts with Mary Wollstonecraft and traces the development of the attack on Victorian institutions right up to the 1920s and on to the 'permissive' society in which we live. But the story covers all facets of the movement: the struggle for enfranchisement, for property rights, and education, for working women in industry, for temperance and social reform. These remarkable women leaders live in these pages, but even more in the Documents which form the second part of the book. Here their own voices come to us across the years with a sincerity which gives life to the language of a past age.

Product Description: The all-too-brief period of relative tranquility that extended from the end of the Cold War to the beginning of the War on Terror is the subject of William L. O'Neill's brilliant new study of recent American history. Mr. O'Neill's sharp eye for the telling incident and the apt quotation combine with an acute historical judgment to make A Bubble in Time a compellingly readable informal history...read more

Presents 647 brief biographies of notable figures who were active in the 1960s, summarizing each figure's family history, education, occupation, cause of death, achievements, and legacy.

Presents 647 brief biographies of notable figures who were active in the 1960s, summarizing each figure's family history, education, occupation, cause of death, achievements, and legacy. (view table of contents)

Alphabetically organized and thoroughly cross-referenced and indexed, this comprehensive guide to World War II includes biographical sketches of military and political leaders, analyses of major battles and events, maps, a chronology of key dates, and information on weapons, military organizations, historic sites, and more. Original.

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Entries describing the causes, events, weapons, leaders, and other developments of the war are accompanied by lists of dates and of museums and historic sites

Product Description: As America fought to defend democracy in Europe and Asia during World War II, its own democratic politics both aided and impeded the war effort at home and the military campaigns abroad. Now, in a broad-ranging social, political, military, and diplomatic history, William O'Neill reveals how the United States won its victory despite its reluctance to enter the war, and despite proceeding by costly half-measures even after committing to battle...read more

Surveys the bureaucratic mistakes--including poor weapons and strategic blunders--that marked America's entry into World War II, showing how these errors were overcome by the citizens waging the war

Poet and Journalist, Max Eastman is perhaps the most famous example of an American intellectual who during his life moved across the entire political spectrum. This reexamination of his career and his place in history reveals the dynamics behind his several careers and political transformations, offering new insight into one of the most influential writers of this century. It is a model biography of a key intellectual of the twentieth century. It is also both a perspective social history of his times and a study in the history of ideas. The book will find a welcome place in history, literature, and political science courses, as well as in personal libraries.

Examines the history of postwar America, looks at politics and popular culture, and discusses the most important figures of the period

Product Description: Great vintage book on sexual dilemmas of American society in 1972. It provides a history of the sexual revolution beginning in the early 1900's after the Victorian age and covers the issues faced each decade of the 20th century including the Flapper era, studies of the sex lives of college students in the 1930's, the Kinsey studies, Masters and Johnson, and the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography and censorship issues...read more

Product Description: Book by O'Neill, William L.