The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People, Combined - Softcover

This concise, trade-like survey text is known for Alan Brinkley’s clear narrative voice, impeccable scholarship, and reliability at a low price. It includes a careful examination of American political and diplomatic history, and is equally committed to exploring the other areas of the American past of interest to scholars and students alike. Unfinished Nation presents a broad account of a diverse American past, one in which no single approach dominates. Rather, a balanced picture of the American past emerges that connects the newer histories of society and culture with the more traditional stories of politics, diplomacy, and great public events.This fourth edition features a completely new four-color design and expanded illustration and mapping program, providing students with a more visually appealing text. Chief among content additions are new “America in the World” features that place America in a more global context and demonstrate the importance of the many international influences and other national histories in the American story.

In addition to being a best selling textbook author, ALAN BRINKLEY is the Allan Nevins Professor of History and former Provost at Columbia University. He is the author of Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, which won the 1983 National Book Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War; and Liberalism and its Discontents. His most recent books are John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963 and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century both published recently. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard and taught previously at MIT, Harvard, and the City University Graduate School before joining the Columbia faculty In 1991. In 1998-1999, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. He won the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Award at Harvard in 1987 and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia in 2003. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the board of trustees of the National Humanities Center and Oxford University Press, and chairman of the board of trustees of the Century Foundation. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and the University of Torino (Italy). He was the 1998-1999 Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.