"The [six]-volume Basic History has gained a well-deserved reputation for
combining insight with simple narrative style."AudioFile

Carson's full-scale treatment of American history combines scholarly exactness with evocative
passages that lead the listener to a clearer understanding of the people and events, the triumphs
and the shortcomings, which have shaped this nation. This final volume of commences with the
Great Depression and takes us to the mid-eighties. As the author of Basic Economics,
Carson is well-suited to diagnose the causes of the stock market crash and the years of economic
depression which followed.

Further discussions include the New Deal, the National Labor Relations Act, the start of Social
Security, World War II, the Cold War, Welfare in the U.S. and abroad, black activism, the Cultural
Revolution, Vietnam, the rise of the Conservative movement, Nixon and Watergate, the Carter
presidency, and the beginning of the Reagan years.