Promises to keep: the United States since World War II
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Lexington, MA u.a.
Heath
1995
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| Umfang: | XIV, 555 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0669203505 |
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| adam_text | Contents
PART ONE: The American Century i
Chapter One
Crucible of Change: World War II and the Forging
of Modern America 4
The Grand Alliance, Globalist Dreams, and Big Power Realities 4
High Resolve and National Unity 8
The American Economy Goes to War 11
Government and Politics in the War Years 15
A People in Wartime 18
Technology, Oil, and War 25
Focus On: Government and Science: An Uneasy Partnership 30
Conclusion 33
Chapter Two
“Not Since Rome and Carthage”: Into the Cold War 37
Roots of the Cold War 38
1946: The Iron Curtain, Iran, Atomic Energy 43
1947: The Truman Doctrine, Containment, and the Marshall Plan 47
1948-1949: The Prague Coup, the Berlin Airlift, and NATO 55
Deeper into the Cold War: China, the H-Bomb, Korea 59
Conclusion 66
Chapter Three
Uneasiness at Dawn: Domestic Trends in the Early
Postwar Y ears 71
Demobilization and the Limits of Liberalism at Home 72
African-Americans and the Liberal Agenda 76
The Cold War at Home and the 1948 Election 80
The Fair Deal and McCarthyism 85
Focus On: The National-Security State 90
Boom Times 92
Beyond “Rosie the Riveter”: Women in Postwar America 94
Diversion and Doubt: Culture in the Early Postwar Years 95
All Aboard the Freedom Train: Mobilizing Against Communism 100
Conclusion 102
Chapter Four
Modern Republicanism and Suburban Togetherness in the 1950s 106
The Politics of Moderation 107
1953-1956: Nuclear Strategy and Global Containment 116
Deepening Entanglements in Asia 121
The Economic Boom Rolls On 124
Suburban Living and Family Togetherness 130
Conclusion 136
PART TWO: Dissent, Terror, Reform Hi
Chapter Five
The Other Side of the Picture Window: Outsiders, Dissidents,
and Critics in the 1950s 144
Films of the Fifties: Undercurrents of Menace 145
Rebellious Youth 147
Cultural Resistance: The Arts and Social Criticism in Cold War America 152
Focus On: The Mass-Culture Debate 158
Fallout Fears and Test-Ban Activism 162
Broun and Beyond: The Civil-Rights Movement in Eisenhower’s America 165
Conclusion 174
Chapter Six
From Sputnik to the Nuclear Brink to Vietnam: The Cold War
Heats Up 178
From the Heavens to Havana: Cold War Alarms in the Late Fifties 179
Campaign 1960: Variations on the Cold War Theme 182
The Cold War, Kennedy-Style 186
Disaster at Bahia de Cochinos 189
October 1962: To the Brink 192
Southeast Asia and Vietnam: Deeper into the Tunnel 196
The Kennedy Cold War: A Summary 201
Tragedy in Dallas 202
Conclusion 204
Chapter Seven
The Liberal Hour 207
Shaping a Liberal Agenda: The 1950s 208
Implementing a Liberal Agenda: The Kennedy Years 210
LBJ: The Making of a President 215
The Apex of a Liberal Agenda: The War on Poverty 216
Election 1964: Liberalism Triumphant 220
The Politics of Hope: Johnson’s Great Society 223
Focus On: The Health-Care Headache 226
The New Environmentalism 229
The War on Poverty and the Great Society: A Postmortem 235
Conclusion 239
Chapter Eight
The Civil-Rights Movement at Flood Tide 243
1960-1962: Tactical Innovation, Political Hesitation 246
1963: Victory in Birmingham, Rising Black Anger, Action in Washington 254
1964: Breaking the Legislative Logjam 262
1965: Selma and the Voting Rights Act 266
Reflections on the Civil-Rights Struggle, 1960-1965 270
Conclusion 273
PART THREE: The Loss of Innocence 277
Chapter Nine
Radicalization; Black Power, the New Left, and the
Counterculture 280
Ghetto Upheavals and Black Power 281
The Personal Is Political: The New Left and the Counterculture 290
Conclusion 300
Chapter Ten
Out of Control: War in Vietnam, Protest at Home 302
Vietnam 1963-1967: The Years of Escalation 303
Gnawing Doubts at High Levels 317
“The Wound that Bleedeth Inward ♦,320
Focus On: The Imperial Presidency 322
Responses to Vietnam: The Faces of Opposition and Support 325
Conclusion 329
Chapter Eleven
1968 and the Nixon Years 333
1968: “The Center Cannot Hold” 334
Nixon’s War: Vietnam, 1969-1975 342
Realpolitik and Détente 352
Focus On: The Nuclear Threat 356
Domestic Policy: New Departures, Conservative Affirmations 362
Conclusion 369
Chapter Twelve
Reform in the Nation, Crisis in Washington 372
Escapism and Renewed Activism 373
Watergate: The Nation in Crisis 388
Conclusion 398
PART FOUR: Uncertain Triumph 403
Chapter Thirteen
Picking Up the Pieces: Post-Watergate America 407
A Ford Not a Lincoln 408
A Sea of Troubles: The Carter Years « 412
An Economy in Crisis 420
Backlash: Culture and Politics in the Later Seventies 424
Focus On: That Old-Time Religion 432
Carter Diplomacy and The Middle East Hostage Crisis 436
Conclusion 439
Chapter Fourteen
Prime-Time Politics: The Reagan Years 444
The New Right Takes Charge: 1980-1984 445
New Militance: Reagan and Foreign Policy 455
Scandal and Surprises: Reagan’s Second Term 461
A Decade of Greed 467
Conclusion 476
Chapter Fifteen
The Search for New Directions at Century’s End 480
Campaign’88 481
Marking Time: The Bush Interlude 482
The Fabric Strained: American Society at Century’s End 490
Focus On: The Multiculturalism Debate 492
Economic Stagnation and Middle-Class Anxieties 500
Campaign ’92 502
A Chastened Liberalism: Clinton at the Helm 506
Conclusion 515
Epilogue
America Poised Between Two Eras 518
Index 523
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