Product Description: When Daniel Patrick Moynihan died in 2003 the Economist described him as “a philosopher-politician-diplomat who two centuries earlier would not have been out of place among the Founding Fathers.” Though Moynihan never wrote an autobiography, he was a gifted author and voluminous correspondent, and in this selection from his letters Steven Weisman has compiled a vivid portrait of Moynihan's life, in the senator's own words...read more

Profiles the years between the Civil War and World War I as a period of significant social and political change, tracing a rise of wealth and power, the bitter war between the Populists and Progressives, and the birth of America as a global power. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Profiles the years between the Civil War and World War I as a period of significant social and political change, tracing a rise of wealth and power, the bitter war between the Populists and Progressives, and the birth of America as a global power. 35,000 first printing. (view table of contents)