Makers of the American Century

"This is a single volume history of the United States, from the beginnings of its global role with the Spanish-American war of 1898 to the extraordinary dominance of its military force, its economic systems, culture and curiously contradictory values at the end of the twentieth century. Each chapter will focus on an emblematic figure and this collage of portraits will bring together political life and industrial developement, inbtellectual vigour and social change, military prowess and the soft power of American culture as well as the century's vivid cultural history. enry Ford and Woodrow Wilson, Scott Fitzgerald and Frank Lloyd Wright, Babe Ruth and Ted Turner, Walt Disney and Richard Nixon all feature in this innovative, engaging, authorative and personal history of the world's most powerful nation."