Rock Bottom: A Narrative History Of America

Schweikart has written over twenty books in his career including popular titles such as, “A Patriot’s History of the United States” and “48 Liberal Lies About American History.” This book analyzes seeming insignificant events and looks at the short and long-term effects on the United States of America. In this book, seven events are looked through in detail and their effects on American Government are explained.

In the early nineties (it might have been 1992, but it's hard to remember when you're having a good time) I joined a rock-and-roll band composed mostly of writers. The Rock Bottom Remainders were the brainchild of Kathi Kamen Goldmark, a book publicist and musician from San Francisco. The group included Dave Barry on lead guitar, Ridley Pearson on bass, Barbara Kingsolver on keyboards, Robert Fulghum on mandolin, and me on rhythm guitar. There was also a trio of "chick singers," la the Dixie Cups, made up (usually) of Kathi, Tad Bartimus, and Amy Tan.

Jordan Whitmore History 121 December 1, 2015 Carl Jensen’s Stories That Changed America: Muckrakers of the 20th Century Carl Jensen was an author, newspaper reporter, advertising executive, and professor at Sonoma State University. He also founded Project Censored in 1976, a research project on news media censorship, and acted as the director of the program which has remained an important part of the University’s journalistic curriculum since its inception. The techniques used by Jensen to teach journalism have been accepted and used by colleges throughout the country based upon their exceptional quality and standards. Jensen was a strong advocate of the idea of freedom of speech and expression espoused in the First Amendment of the U.S.

In writing A Voyage Long and Strange, Tony Horwitz’s goal is clear, to educate others on early America and debunk ignorant myths. Horwitz’s reason for wanting to achieve this goal is because of his own ignorance that he sees while at Plymouth Rock. “Expensively educated at a private school and university- a history major, no less!-I’d matriculated to middle age with a third grader’s grasp of early America.” Horwitz is disappointed in his own lack of knowledge of his home country, especially with his background history and decides not only to research America’s true beginnings, but to also follow the path of those who originally yearned to discover America.

Consensus history is a nationalistic and homogenized narrative composed by white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, New Englander elites that aimed to minimize some of the errors of our nation’s past (p.20). Books composed in this manner frequently exaggerated, omitted, or falsified information to make the history of America look less shameful and more valiant than it really was. Some of those omitted were women, Native Americans, and African Americans because they did not fit this positive narrative. Two of the major authors of consensus history were George Bancroft and Francis Parkman.

The American present witnesses the steady aggrandizement of” powers, while “the story of the American past, on the other hand, continues to be told in narratives that…highlight[s] a story of relative powerlessness.” This conflicting representation of American past versus present supports Novak’s claim that one cannot associate what began as a weak state to how it is formed today, indicating a falsehood to Tea Party members

The world of the 1930s was very different from the one we know today, a failing economy, poverty and suffering, crime filling the streets, and a President that did little to nothing to combat it. Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States. He worked in WW1 and had some past economic and political experience, but this did little for him during his presidency. The point of my paper is to bring to light the failures and successes of Herbert Hoover.

The chapters of our textbook, America: A Narrative History, written by George Brown Tindall and David Emory Shi, takes us on a historical yet comparative journey of the road to war and what caused the American Revolution, an insight into the war itself, and a perception to what life was like in America after the war was over. The essays of the book, America Compared: American History in International Perspective, collected by Carl J. Guarneri gives us a global context and a comparison between the North and South Americas in the dividing issues of labor, slavery, taxes, politics, economy, liberty, and equality. Part One These chapters in our textbook Tindall describes; the road to the American Revolution, the road to the surrendering of the British, and the road to the American colonists receiving their independence and developing the government which the people of the United States will be governed by. The road to the American Revolution consisted of several events, which escalated to the war that began April 19, 1775, as the tensions between the American colonies and the British Government advanced towards breaking point.

The Reason the United States Government Has Failed its People It is now January 3rd, 1931, and I have been unemployed and homeless for over a year now living on the streets of Chicago. About ten years ago, I started working in a factory that created underarm deodorant. Around a year and a half ago, my wage was decreased. Eventually I was fired.

There is a vast amount of events throughout America’s history in which Americans have been cruel to other people, oftentimes wrongdoing of our own U.S. citizens. From the beginning of the United States’ history of forcing Native Americans from their homeland, to current day events such as the Charlottesville riots where Confederate flags were raised and claiming that the Confederate flag has good meaning and is not racist. Coates expresses how America uses good intentions as a way to make up for all of the harsh events that have occurred. Before reading this, I was aware of Americans making excuses for their actions, but Coates helped me to realize that even in events such as slavery, the United States has found ways to justify their actions,

The American Civil War and the Reconstruction periods played an important role in defining the nation’s political, social, and economic identity in the sense that the country’s survival and democratic principles were radically tested. As the country was becoming a hemispherical power, sectional tensions and dissenting attitudes of opposing groups make these periods comparable with the Revolutionary War in three major components: the issue of slavery and struggle for equality, the role of the federal government vs. states’ rights, and scuffles related with economic power. Prior to the Revolutionary War, there was an existing struggle between social classes as the southern states had an inflexible social structure, whereas in the northern states the Industrial Revolution was beginning to take place, causing a dramatic shift of labor force after the country gained its independence in 1783. With the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1791, southern landowners took advantage of the slave force to increase their profits radically, and this reliance on slaves for the

The historical book One Summer America 1927 by Bill Bryson, discusses the social, political and cultural advances and declines that the American people saw in the year 1927. He discusses many events which compliment on the changing times of America such as the Ku Klux Klan which created havoc for the immigrants and black Americans and then saw its downfall. Similarly the author discusses the ignorance of the people to the coming of the Great Depression which was being shoved on them by the rich bankers of the country. The author presents the grimmest of the events which brought out the horrible faces of the faction of the people who had differing ideas and did not want to promote peace.

Jill Lepore's book, These Truths , is an attempt to portray the United States history from beginning to end. The novel discusses American laws, politics, important events, and people. Lepore took on the task of trying to fit all of the United States history in a book of only 932 pages. Jill Lepoore managed to get a good overview of all the important historical events while also adding some of her own opinions and ideas. These Truths is an exceptional piece of writing and it provides accurate and useful information on American history, while also still getting her perspective across.

The year 1932 was “rock bottom” for America and the Great Depression. And that is how William begins - at the bottom. He even entitles his prologue “Rock Bottom”. When I picked up this first volume I thought it was the most radical thing that I had ever read.

Oakes argues that as America went to war with itself, Lincoln’s antislavery politics and Douglas’s abolitionism gradually converged. James Oakes vivid political analysis chronicles the transformation of two of America’s greatest leaders as Lincoln embraces the role of the “radical” and Douglas embraces the role of the “republican” (104). The Radical and the Republican is set in the Antebellum period when the United States was divided by the great struggle between liberty and slavery in the North and the South. The Antebellum Era in American history was a time of economic, political, and social change.