American Empire The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 1945-2000

Name: American Empire The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 1945-2000
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ISBN: 9780143123491

ISBN-10: 0143123491

ISBN-13: 9780143123491

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Authors: Joshua Freeman, Eric Foner

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A landmark history of postwar America and the second volume in the Penguin History of the United States series In this momentous work, acclaimed labor historian Joshua B. Freeman presents an epic portrait of the United States in the latter half of the twentieth century, revealing a nation galvanized by change even as conflict seethed within its borders. Beginning in 1945, he charts the astounding rise of the labor movement and its pitched struggle with the bastions of American capitalism in the 1940s and '50s, untangling the complicated threads between the workers’ agenda and that of the civil rights and women’s movements. Through the lens of civil rights, the Cold War struggle, and the…

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List price: $39.99
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/6/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Eric Foner is a professor of American history at Columbia University.



Introduction


Prologue: E Pluribus Unum



Pax Americana (1945-1953)



Power and Politics



Cold War



Stalemate in Washington



National Security State



The High Tide of Liberal Democracy (1954-1974)



Suburban Nation



"We the Union Army"



"Hour of Maximum Danger"



The Democratic Revolution



Apocalypse Now



Sixties to Seventies, Dreams to Nightmare's



The End of the American Century



The Resurrection of Corporate Capitalism (1975-1989)



The Landscape of Decline



The Politics of Stagnation



The Corporate Revolution



The Reagan Revolution



Cold War Redux



The New World Order (1990-2000)



"I'm Running Out of Demons"



Triangulation



Living Large


Epilogue: America After 9/11


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


Index