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| Preface | |
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| Postwar Adjustments | |
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| Enter Harry Truman, the "Little Man from Missouri" | |
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| The Postwar Economy and Its Impact | |
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| The American Family | |
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| The Changing Place of Women | |
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| Truman, the Economy, and Organized Labor | |
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| Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement | |
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| Truman, the Eightieth Congress, and the Election of 1948 | |
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| The Fair Deal and Truman's Second Term | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reading: A. Philip Randolph | |
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| The Early Cold War | |
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| Yalta and the End of the War | |
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| Harry Truman and the Growth of Conflict | |
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| The Architects of Containment | |
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| Berlin Crisis and NATO | |
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| Cold War in Asia and the Origins of the Korea Conflict | |
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| NSC-68 and the Redirection of American Foreign Policy | |
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| The Cold War Comes Home | |
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| Korea, "The Forgotten War" | |
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| The 1952 Campaign and the End of an Era | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reading: Truman and Israel | |
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| Affluence and Anxiety: America in the 1950s | |
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| The Family | |
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| It Was All on TV | |
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| Cinema in the Fifties | |
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| Cool Culture | |
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| The Beats | |
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| Advances in Medical and Biological Science | |
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| Literary Genres | |
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| Drama and Theater | |
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| The New American Religion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reading: A Little Bit of Rock 'n' Roll | |
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| The Eisenhower Presidency | |
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| Eisenhower and Domestic Policy | |
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| A "New Look" at Foreign Policy | |
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| Covert Operations in Iran and Guatemala | |
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| The Suez Crisis and America's Postwar Involvement in the Middle East | |
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| The Hungarian Crisis | |
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| Early Involvement in Southeast Asia | |
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| Problems in Cuba | |
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| McCarthyism, Anti-Communist Hysteria, and Conformity at Home | |
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| Second Reconstruction: Civil Rights in the Fifties | |
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| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas | |
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| Montgomery and King | |
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| Little Rock | |
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| The Politics of Civil Rights and the Civil Rights Act of 1957 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reading: Sputnik and the Space Race | |
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| Kennedy at Home and Abroad | |
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| Election of 1960 | |
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| The Best and the Brightest | |
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| The New Frontier | |
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| The Second Reconstruction-Continued | |
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| Freedom Rides | |
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| Birmingham/Bombingham | |
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| A Most Dangerous Time | |
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| Cuba and the Bay of Pigs | |
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| Berlin and the Wall | |
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| The Cuban Missile Crisis | |
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| JFK and Vietnam | |
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| Tragedy in Dallas | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reading: Lee Harvey Oswald | |
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| "We Shall Continue" | |
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| Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedy Legacy | |
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| The Election of 1964 and the Liberal Mandate | |
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| Great Society | |
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| The Second Reconstruction-Continued | |
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| Freedom Summer | |
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| Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party | |
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| Selma and Voting Rights | |
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| Lyndon Johnson's War | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reading: Lyndon Johnson, "Promises to Keep," Johns Hopkins University Speech, April 7, 1965 | |
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| The Nation in the 1960s | |
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| Youth Culture: From Birth to Fad | |
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| The Americanization of the War | |
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| The Antiwar Movement and the New Left | |
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| "I Will Not Accept": The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson | |
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| The 1968 Campaign | |
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| Black Power and the Radicalization of the Civil Rights Movement | |
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| Urban Riots | |
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| Backlash | |
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| A Call for Social Change and Recognition | |
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| The New American Feminism | |
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| On "The Pill" | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reading: Space, the Final Frontier | |
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| Out of the 1960s and into the 1970s: The Agony of Change | |
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| Nixon in the White House | |
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| Nixon Looks at the World | |
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| The Legacy of Vietnam | |
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| D�tente | |
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| Nixon and China | |
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| Watergate and the Resignation of a President | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reading: A Golden Age: Sports from the Mid-1960s to the Mid-1970s | |
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| America in the 1970s: The Post-Watergate Years | |
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| Taking Stock: A Statistical Analysis | |
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| The Accession of Gerald Ford | |
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| Politics, War, and the Oil Shock | |
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| Rise of the Computer | |
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| Foreign Affairs under Ford | |
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| The New Environmentalism | |
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| Election of 1976 | |
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| The Carter Presidency: The Domestic Front | |
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| The Carter Presidency: Foreign Affairs | |
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| Debacle in the Middle East | |
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| Presidential Campaign of 1980 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reading: Jonestown | |
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| The Reagan Years | |
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| Reagan the Man | |
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| Reaganomics | |
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| The New Cold War | |
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| Central America | |
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| Reagan in the Middle East-and Lebanon | |
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| SDI and U.S.-Soviet Relations | |
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| Culture and Society of the 1980s and the Rise of the Religious Right | |
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| War on Drugs | |
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| AIDS, "The Gay Epidemic" | |
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| Education in the Reagan Years | |
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| The "Me" Generation and the Culture of Narcissism | |
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| Reagan in His Second Administration | |
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| Iran-Contra | |
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| The Eighties Character | |
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| The 1988 Campaign | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reading: Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address, January 11, 1989 | |
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| The Kinder, Gentler Conservatism of George H. W. Bush | |
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| The First President Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty | |
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| Bush and the World | |
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| The Collapse of the Soviet Union | |
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| The First Gulf War | |
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| America at Home | |
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| The Continued AIDS Crisis | |
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| The Environment and George Bush | |
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| The New Court | |
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| The New Diversity | |
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| A Divided Black America | |
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| 1992 Campaign | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reading: America's New Feminism | |
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| Bill Clinton's America | |
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| Partisanship Reborn | |
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| An Economic Focus out of the Box | |
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| Health Care | |
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| The "New Clinton" | |
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| Republican Ascension | |
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| The Go-Go 1990s | |
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| Foreign Policy in the Clinton Administration | |
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| Terrorism, Foreign and Domestic | |
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| The 1996 Campaign and More Moderation | |
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| Kosovo | |
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| Scandal and "Monicagate" | |
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| Bush versus Gore: Election of 2000 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reading: O.J. | |
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| Taking Stock: America at the New Millennium | |
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| African Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century | |
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| Affirmative Action | |
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| Immigration and Multiculturalism | |
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| The Abortion Debate | |
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| Gay Rights | |
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| Stem Cell Research, Intelligent Design, and Terry Schiavo | |
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| The Graying of America | |
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| The Environment and Global Warming | |
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| The New Economy | |
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| The Origins of the Internet and the Computer Culture | |
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| Medical Science: The Human Genome Project | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reading: Bill Gates | |
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| The Life and Times of George W. Bush | |
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| George W. Bush | |
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| The War on Terror | |
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| The End of the Boom Economy | |
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| The 2004 Election | |
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| The Growing Problems in Iraq | |
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| The New Nuclear Threat | |
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| Disaster at Home | |
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| A Statistician's View | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reading: George W. Bush, "Axis of Evil" Speech, State of the Union, January 2002 | |
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| Epilogue: The Obama Election: A Defining Moment? | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |