New York: Harper, 2014. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 552 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Minor DJ wear. Irwin Unger died in 2021, shortly after his 94th birthday and the 51st anniversary of his marriage with Debi Unger, who was also his co-author. Irwin Unger was a professor of history at New York University. He was awarded the Pulitzer prize for The Greenback Era and has edited several standard history texts. He is the recipient of several Guggenheim fellowships and a Rockefeller Humanities fellowship. Debi Unger is a journalist who has collaborated with Irwin Unger on The Vulnerable Years, Twentieth-Century America, and Turning Point: 1968. She has also written “Portraits and Documents for These United States: The Questions of Our Past. Unger published widely. His first book, The Greenback Era, was so meticulously researched, solidly reasoned, and well written that it won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize in history. His scholarly interests ranged from the Civil War and Reconstruction to the Sixties and the modern era. It is an impressive legacy that includes; George Marshall, (with Debi Unger and Stanley Hirshson, 2014), The Guggenheims: A Family History, (with Debi Unger, 2005), LBJ : A Life, (with Debi Unger, 1999), The Times Were a Changin': The Sixties Reader (with Debi Unger, 1998), The Best of Intentions: The Great Society Programs of Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon (1996), Turning Point, 1968, (with Debi Unger, 1988), The Vulnerable Years: The United States, 1896-1917 (1977), The Movement: The American New Left 1959-1973 (1973), The Greenback Era: A Political and Social History of American Finance (1964). More