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| Note: Each chapter concludes with Selected Readings | |
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| Introduction: The American Paradox, 19452002 | |
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| The Specter of Appeasement: The Cold War, 19451949 | |
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| Roots of the Cold War | |
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| Harry Truman Takes Charge | |
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| The Fall of the Iron Curtain Containing Communism: The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan Mounting Tensions, Precarious Solutions | |
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| Debating Containment PRIMARY SOURCES George Kennan, The Sources of Soviet Conduct Henry Wallace, The Last Chance for Peace Harry Truman, The Truman Doctrine | |
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| In the Shadow of FDR From War to Peace | |
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| The Rise of Harry Truman | |
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| Truman and the Divided Democrats | |
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| The 1948 Election Trying for a Fair Deal | |
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| The Vital Center PRIMARY SOURCES Harry Truman, Acceptance Speech, 1948 | |
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| The Cold War Heats Up The Cold War in Asia | |
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| The Korean War: From Invasion to Stalemate Truman-MacArthur and the Trials of Containment Consequences of Korea | |
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| The Politics of Fear Cold War Popular Culture Joseph McCarthy PRIMARY SOURCES National Security Council, NSC-68 Joseph McCarthy, Final, All-Out Battle Margaret Chase Smith, Declaration of Conscience | |
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| The Consumer Society, 19451960 | |
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| The Baby Boom and the Rise of Mass Consumption | |
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| The Rise of the Suburbs | |
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| The Changing World of Work | |
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| Shaping National Culture: The Shared Images of Television | |
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| The Car Culture Teenagers and the Rise of Rock and Roll Mass Culture and Its Critics PRIMARY SOURCES Billy Graham, America's Greatest Sin Life, The New Teen Market U.S. News and World Report, Perils of Mass Culture | |
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| The Politics of Moderation, 19511960 | |
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| The Election of 1952 Dynamic Conservatism at Home Taking on McCarthy | |
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| The 1956 Presidential Campaign The "New Look" Abroad Rhetoric and Reality of Liberation | |
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| The Threat of Third-World Nationalism Eisenhower and Vietnam PRIMARY SOURCES Richard Nixon, The Checkers Speech Dwight Eisenhower to Swede Hazlett, 1954 Dwight Eisenhower, The Domino Theory | |
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| American Ideals and Social Realities, 19521960 | |
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| Intellectuals and the Celebration of Consensus | |
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| The New Poverty Women During the 1950s | |
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| The Struggle for Black Equality The Montgomery Bus Boycott Civic Nationalism/ Cultural Pluralism | |
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| The Quest for National Purpose, 19571960 | |
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| Political and Economic Uncertainties Kennedy and the 1960 | |
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| Presidential Election PRIMARY SOURCES Brown v. Board of Education The Southern Manifesto, 1956 How to respond to a Nuclear Attack, 1950 | |
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| The Kennedy Presidency, 19611963 | |
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| JFK and the New Frontier JFK and Civil Rights From Birmingham to Montgomery | |
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| New Frontiers Abroad The Bay of Pigs Kennedy and Khrushchev | |
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| The Cuban Missile Crisis JFK and Vietnam | |
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| The Life of Kennedy's Death PRIMARY SOURCES SNCC Statement of Purpose, 1960 Diem to JFK, 1961; JFK to Diem, 1961 | |
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| Lyndon Johnson's Ordeal: The Great Society and Vietnam, 19641968 | |
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| Lyndon Johnson Takes Charge The War on Poverty | |
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| The 1964 Election The Great Society Johnson and Civil Rights | |
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| The Reforms of the Warren Court Vietnam: The Decision to Escalate America's War | |
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| The Solider's War PRIMARY SOURCES Barry Goldwater, Acceptance Speech, 1964 The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 1964 George Ball, Memorandum for the President | |
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| Challenging the Consensus, 19601969 | |
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| The Youth Culture The New Left and the Anti-War Movement | |
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| The New Conservatives | |
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| The Watts Rebellion King in Chicago Black Power/ White Backlash Tet and the Anguish of Lyndon Johnson Kennedy and King The 1968 Democratic Convention | |
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| The Center Holds: The Election of 1968 PRIMARY SOURCES SDS, Port Huron Statement Mario Savio, Sproul Hall Steps YAF, The Sharon Statement Malcolm X, The Black Revolution | |
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| Richard Nixon and the New Republican Majority, 19691974 | |
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| The Rise of the Middle Americans | |
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| The Rise of Richard Nixon Vietnam: The War at Home and Abroad Mobilizing the "Silent Majority" | |
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| The Cambodian Incursion Peace with Honor? Nixon, Kissinger, and the World | |
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| The Limits of Realism Playing the Race Card | |
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| The 1972 Presidential Campaign Watergate and the Downfall of Richard Nixon PRIMARY SOURCES Richard Nixon, The Silent Majority The Smoking Gun | |
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| The Clash of Cultures, 19701980 | |
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| The Me Decade The Flowering of 60s Culture African Americans: Progress and Poverty | |
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| The New Cultural Pluralism | |
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| The Modern Gay-Rights Movement | |
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| The Women's Movement Saving the Environment | |
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| The Conservative Response Cultural Crosscurrents | |
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| The Battle over the Equal Rights Amendment Busing Anita Bryant and the Struggle for Gay Rights PRIMARY SOURCES Ceacute;sar Chaacute;vez, The Grape Boycott A Radical Manifesto, 1969 Phyllis Schlafly, The Power of the Positive Woman | |
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| America's Crisis of Confidence, 19741980 | |
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| Watergate Legacies: The Diffusion of Power | |
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| The Politics of Austerity A Time to Heal: The Brief Presidency of Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter and the New Democrats | |
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| The Democrats' Discontent | |
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| The 1980 Presidential Campaign PRIMARY SOURCES Gerald Ford, Pardon of Richard Nixon Jimmy Carter, The Crisis of Confidence Ronald Reagan, New Economic Policies, 1980 | |
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| The Reagan Presidency, 19811989 The Style and Substance of Ronald Reagan | |
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| The Reagan Agenda Attacking the Liberal State Reagan Justice | |
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| The 1984 Presidential Campaign Reagan and the Cold War | |
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| The New Arms Race The Cold War in Central America | |
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| The Threat of International Terrorism | |
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| The Reagan Legacy PRIMARY SOURCES Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address Geraldine Ferraro, 1984 Democratic Convention Speech Oliver North, Iran-Contra Testimony | |
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| The Culture Wars, 19801992 | |
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| The Politics of Family Values Abortion AIDS and the Struggle for Gay Rights Black, Brown, and Yellow | |
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| The Backlash Against Multiculturalism PRIMARY SOURCES Jerry Falwell, Return to Traditional Religious Values A. Barlett Giamatti, Letter to Yale Freshmen, 1981 Ryan White, AIDS Testimony | |
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| The Triumph of Consumerism, 19801992 | |
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| The Money Culture The MTV Generation | |
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| The Hourglass Society | |
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| The Poverty Debate American Aparthied PRIMARY SOURCES Ivan Boesky, Commencement Address, 1986 | |
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| The End of the Cold War, 19881992 | |
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| The Search for Reagan's Successor 1989: The Year of Miracles The New World Order War with Iraq Problems on the Home Front | |
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| The Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas Hearings | |
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| The 1992 Presidential Campaign PRIMARY SOURCES Congress Debates War or Peace with Iraq | |
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| The Clinton Presidency, 19932001 | |
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| The Clinton Agenda Moving to the Center Winning a Second Term: The 1996 Campaign The New Internationalism Trouble Spots: Iraq and Yugoslavia Impeachment | |
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| The Clinton Legacy PRIMARY SOURCES The Contract with America, 1994 Bill Clinton, Apology to the Nation | |
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| The Prosperous Nineties | |
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| The Computer Revolution and the Information Society | |
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| The Birth of the World Wide Web Wall Street Boom From Wall Street to Main Street | |
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| The Politics of Prosperity Sex, Violence, and the Culture Wars | |
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| Hip-Hop Nation Race and American Justice The Many Sh | |