Derrydale Press
Pages: 776
Trim: 9 x 11¼
978-0-9674103-0-2 • Hardback • September 2000 • $19.95 • (£14.99)
978-1-4616-6143-6 • eBook • September 2000 • $18.99 • (£14.99)
Stefan Lorant was the author of more than a dozen books on American history. He edited magazines in three languages — English, German, and his native Hungarian. He has been acknowledged as the creator of modern photo-journalism by Life magazine, The New York Times, and The London Times. In 1991 The London Times included him as one of the "1000 Makers of the Twentieth Century" for the development of photo-journalism.
Chapter 1 Forts in the Wilderness
Chapter 2 Gateway to the West
Chapter 3 The City Grows
Chapter 4 The Civil War and its Aftermath
Chapter 5 The Hearth pof the Nation
Chapter 6 Problems of Labor
Chapter 7 The Entrepreneurs
Chapter 8 The Muckracking Era
Chapter 9 Between Two Wars
Chapter 10 Rebirth
Chapter 11 Levelling Off
Chapter 12 The City of Champions
Chapter 13 Renaissance II
Chapter 14 The Great Transformation in the Eighties
15 The Best is Yet to Come