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| List of Illustrations | |
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| About the Contributors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Society and Culture | |
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| Family and Demography in Postwar America: A Hazard of New Fortunes? | |
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| The Power of Place: Race, Political Economy, and Identity in the Postwar Metropolis | |
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| American Religion Since 1945 | |
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| Time Out: Leisure and Tourism | |
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| Mass Media: From 1945 to the Present | |
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| What the Traffic Bares: Popular Music "Back in the USA" | |
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| The Visual Arts in Post-1945 America | |
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| American Intellectual History and Social Thought Since 1945 | |
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| People and Movements | |
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| American Political Culture Since 1945 | |
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| Hyphen Nation: Ethnicity in American Intellectual and Political Life | |
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| Labor During the American Century: Work, Workers, and Unions Since 1945 | |
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| The Historiography of the Struggle for Black Equality Since 1945 | |
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| Postwar Women's History: The "Second Wave" or the End of the Family Wage? | |
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| Sexuality and the Movements for Sexual Liberation | |
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| A Movement of Movements: The Definition and Periodization of the New Left | |
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| The Triumph of Conservatives in a Liberal Age | |
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| Modern Environmentalism | |
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| Politics and Foreign Policy | |
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| Beyond the Presidential Synthesis: Reordering Political Time | |
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| McCarthyism and the Red Scare | |
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| The Politics of "The Least Dangerous Branch": The Court, the Constitution, and Constitutional Politics Since 1945 | |
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| The Cold War in Europe | |
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| Off the Beach: The United States, Latin America, and the Cold War | |
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| The United States and East Asia in the Postwar Era | |
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| Washington Quagmire: US Presidents and the Vietnam Wars - A Pattern of Intervention | |
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| The End of the Cold War | |
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| From the "Atomic Age" to the "Anti-Nuclear Age": Nuclear Energy in Politics, Diplomacy, and Culture | |
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| Essential Reading | |
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| J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (1985) | |
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| Charles Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom (1995) | |
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| Samuel Lubell, The Future of American Politics (1952, 1956, 1965) | |
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| Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were (1992) | |
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| Alphonso Pinkney, The Myth of Black Progress (1984) | |
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| Garry Wills, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (1970) | |
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| Victor Navasky, Naming Names (1980) | |
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| Edward Said, Orientalism (1978) | |
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| Index | |