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The Reckless Decade By: H.W. Brands Few books portray the “reckless decade” of the 1890s as vividly or as detailed as HW Brand’s The Reckless Decade. Filled with stifling detail, intense political drama, and great social/economic analysis, The Reckless Decade by H.W. Brands is an enlightening summary of the conflicts, victories, and turmoil of the 1890s. The book is organized mainly by chronological order, starting from the end of the frontier times of western expansion, to the rise of electrical technology, the overwhelming effects/conflicts of immigration and urbanization, to the great clash of the industrial superpowers, the intense and fierce worker/union movement, the rise of racism and segregation, and the fierce political battle fo