America in Our Time From World War II to Nixon--What Happened and Why

Name: America in Our Time From World War II to Nixon--What Happened and Why
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ISBN: 9780691122885

ISBN-10: 0691122881

ISBN-13: 9780691122885

Edition: 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Godfrey Hodgson

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American In Our Time is a history of the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the fall of Richard Nixon. Focusing on the 1960s, the book debunks some of the myths about that much misremembered decade. Godfrey Hodgson pioneers the idea that in the 1950s a "liberal consensus" governed American politics, by which conservatives accepted the liberal domestic policy of the welfare state, while all but a few liberals shared the conservative foreign policy of Cold War "containment." The book shows in rich detail how that consensus was shattered by the converging blows of racial upheaval, the Vietnam War, and a pervasive crisis of authority in American society, all the way from the…

Book details

List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/26/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 1.37" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English




Hyperion



The 1940s



Abundance



The ideology of the liberal consensus



The presidency



The establishment



The media



The crisis



Black uprising



Black separatism



Vietnam : the beginning



Economic consequences



Fragmented consensus



The great schism



Telegraph Avenue, son of Madison Avenue



An invasion of centaurs



Triumph and failure of a cultural revolution



The end of consensus



The discovery of middle America



War, peace and two Americas



More movements than movement



The capture of the new majority



No crystal stair



Ideology and consensus



Puzzled and prospering