
The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond
The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond
#2501 of 3,809 books · #131 in Politics & Current Affairs
Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1997).
Through the prism of three working-class families, Samuel Freedman illuminates the political history of 20th-century America, commencing with the immigrant foundation that laid the foundation for FDR's New Deal, taking readers through the 1960's era of political activism and ending with today's conservatism.
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- Simon and Schuster
- ISBN-13
- 9780684835365
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Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1997)
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