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In the winter of 1936, Franklin Roosevelt remarked in a fireside chat, ?I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.? Certainly apt in the midst of the Depression, the idea of a nation in the making still resonates today as we measure the achievements and shortcomings of our democracy. Over the long twentieth century, Americans have worked, organized, marched, and fought to make the nation?s ideals a reality for all. This shared commitment to achieving an American democracy is the inspiring theme of These United States.Acclaimed historians Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore and Thomas J. Sugrue forge the panoramic and the personal into an authoritative narrative. They give us insightful accounts of the century?s large events?war, prosperity, and depression, astute leadership and arrogant power, the rise and decline of a broad middle class. And they ground the history in the stories of everyday Americans such as William Hushka, a Lithuanian immigrant
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