Twentieth-Century America: A Brief History
Thomas C. Reeves
Oxford /368 pages /$30
Do we really need another history of America in the last century? Maybe not, but my reason for picking up Thomas C. Reeves's Twentieth Century America wasn't to acquire fresh details and telling anecdotes. It was to learn Reeves's particular take on America's role in the late great century. Thomas Reeves? If you're not familiar with him, you should be. He's a history professor at the University of Wisconsin, Parkside, which doesn't tell you much, and as far as I can tell he's not a conservative. But he's written three books prior to this new one that I believe are enormously …