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A powerful history of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power, told in sweeping scope and intimate detail. In the winter of 1936, Franklin Roosevelt remarked in a fireside chat, "I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making." Certainly apt in the midst of the Depression, the idea of a nation in the making still resonates today as we measure the achievements and shortcomings of our democracy. Over the long twentieth century, Americans have worked, organized, marched, and fought to make the nation's ideals a reality for all. This shared commitment to achieving an American democracy is the inspiring theme of These United States. Acclaimed historians Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore and Thomas J.
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Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore is Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University. Her most recent book, These United States: The Making of Modern America, 1890 to the Present, was co-authored with Thomas Sugrue. Her previous works include Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy, Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950, Who Were the Progressives? , and Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights. Gender and Jim Crow won the James A. Rawley Prize in 1997 for the best book in race relations and the Frederick Jackson Turner for the best first book by an author, both given by the Organization of American Historians. It also won the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, awarded by the Southern Association for Women Historians and Yale University's Heyman Prize. Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 (2008) was named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post and a Notable Book of 2008 by the American Library Association. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute, among others.
