Unfinished Journey America since World War II

Name: Unfinished Journey America since World War II
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ISBN: 9780195315370

ISBN-10: 0195315375

ISBN-13: 9780195315370

Edition: 6th 2007 (Revised)

Authors: William H. Chafe

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This popular and classic text chronicles America's roller-coaster journey through the decades since World War II. Considering both the paradoxes and the possibilities of post-war America, William H. Chafe portrays the significant cultural and political themes that have colored our country's past and present, including issues of race, class, gender, foreign policy, and economic and social reform. He examines such subjects as the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, the origins and the end of the Cold War, the culture of the 1970s, the rise of the New Right, the Clinton presidency, the events of September 11th and their aftermath, the war in Iraq, the 2004 election, and the beginning of…

Book details

List price: $59.95
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/24/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 624
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English



Preface



The War Years



Origins of the Cold War



Truman and the Cold War



"The Other Half of the Walnut": Social Reform and Activism in the Postwar Years



The Paradox of Change: American Society in the Postwar Years



The Civil Rights Movement: "The Gods Bring Threads to Webs Begun"



John F. Kennedy: The Reality and the Myth



LBJ: The Trial of Consensus



Vietnam-The Early Years



"Lyndon's War"



Coming Apart at Home



1968



"Bringing Us Together"



New Rules, Old Realities: The Continuing Intersection of Gender, Class, and Race in the Seventies



The Reagan Years



The 1990s: A Referendum on the Post-World War II Years



2000 and Beyond


Epilogue


Bibliographical Essay


Index