The First Measured Century:: An Illustrated Guide to Trends in America, 1900-2000 - Paperback

by Louis Caplow (Author), Theodore Hicks (Author), Ben J. Wattenberg (Author)

The First Measured Century uses social data to tell us what happened to everyday Americans in the twentieth century.

Author Biography

Theodore Caplow is the Commonwealth Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia and the author of many books, inclduing American Social Trends (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991). Louis Hicks is an associate professor of sociology at St. Mary's College of Maryland and co-author of Systems of War and Peace (University Press of America, 1995). Ben J. Wattenberg is a senior fellow at AEI, a syndicated solumnist, moderator of the PBS series "Think Tank," and author of many books, including Values Matter most (Free Press, 1995).