A Short History of the United States (The Modern Library, No. 235)

xi, 532 pp. CONTENTS: Preface; The Planting of the Colonies; The Colonial Heritage; The Conquest of New France and the Movement for Independence; The Revolution and Confederation; Making the Constitution; The Republic Finds Itself; The Rise of National Unity; Jacksonian Democracy Sweeps In; The West and Democracy; The Sectional Struggle; The Brothers' War; The Emergence of Modern America; The Rise of Big Business; Labor and Immigration; The West Comes of Age; The Farmer and His Problems; The Age of Reform; The Rise of World Power; Woodrow Wilson and the World War; From War to War; The Second World War; Index.