Darren Dochuk
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking new history of the United States, showing how Christian faith and the pursuit of petroleum fueled America's rise to global power and shaped today's political clashes Anointed with Oil places religion and oil at the center of American history. As prize-winning historian Darren Dochuk reveals, from the earliest discovery of oil in America during the Civil War, citizens saw oil as the nation's special blessing and its peculiar burden,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
American Life in the 1960s looks at the major events that occurred throughout this decade and offers information on the demographics of the United States at the time. Readers will gain an understanding of the politics, conflicts, science, inventions, pop culture, fashion, and sports of the decade, and they will learn about the legacy the 1960s left behind.