A revised edition of the book that relates important events and profiles key individuals in American history.

Chapter 1Brave New World 1 -- Chapter 2 Say You Want a Revolution 47 -- Chapter 3 Growth of a Nation: From the Creation of the Constitution to Manifest Destiny 107 -- Chapter 4 Apocalypse Then: To Civil War and Reconstruction 183 -- Chapter 5 When Monopoly Wasn't a Game: The Growing Empire from Wild West to World War I 253 -- Chapter 6 Boom to Bust to Big Boom: From the Jazz Age and the Great Depression to Hiroshima 319 -- Chapter 7 Commies, Containment, and Cold War: America in the Fifties 397 -- Chapter 8 Torch Is Passed: From Camelot to Hollywood on the Potomac 437 -- Chapter 9 From the Evil Empire to the Axis of Evil 533 -- Appendix 1 Bill of Rights and Other Constitutional Amendments 595 -- Appendix 2 Is the Electoral College a Party School? A Presidential Election Primer 618 -- Appendix 3 U.S. Presidents and Their Administrations 624.