Bücher der Reihe Critical Issues in American History

This text examines the causes, prosecution and legacy of World War I, from the perspective of American involvement. It illuminates American influence on the war, looking at battles and diplomatic moves, and the war's impact at home, covering the changing state of American politics, and society.

Conceived in Liberty probes the fundamentals of the great dispute among John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and their followers over the sort of country the United States should be. In clear and concise prose, Lance Banning clarifies the foundations of the first great party struggle-and thus of nineteenth-century America.

This concise history focuses on the development of American conservatism in the twentieth century up to the present.