The Search for Order, 1877-1920, by Robert H. Wiebe takes place at the end of the reconstruction period post-Civil War and continues all the way through the end of World War 1 and a little more. The book’s thesis is about how America came to be from the end of the Reconstruction Period to the end of the First World War and the trouble that it faced trying to gain an identity in the world. Few got rich, while the rest were poor and did not trust the government. Wiebe does a great job of painting pictures in the readers head. America was at a major crossroad and needed to decide which direction to go and how to approach the most crucial time in America’s short history. In the beginning of the book, Wiebe discuss how the railroads were expanding
