American Heritage History of the Confident Years: 1866-1914;

Here, from New York Times bestselling historian Richard Russell is the vivid story of America's confident years - those days of exuberant growth in population, industry, and world prestige beginning with the end of the Civil War and ending with the outbreak of World War I. Here are the stories of political power struggles, Reconstruction, western expansion, Ellis Island, the rise of American tycoons and labor unions, and the entry into World War I.