Lives and Times Individuals and Issues in

Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed to acquaint students with major issues in American history through the lives of individuals, prominent and otherwise, whose activities and ideas were crucial in shaping the course of the nation's history. Employing a narrative style, each volume consists of thirteen chapters in which the lives of two individuals are examined in the broader context of major historical themes.

Blaine T. Browne is professor of history at Broward College. Robert C. Cottrell is professor of history at California State University. Together they have coauthored Uncertain Order: The World in the Twentieth Century. Lives and Legacies: Biographies in Western civilization, and Modern American Lives: Biographies in American History since 1915.

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
A New Birth of Freedom Deferred	p. 1
Final Frontiers, Vanishing Americans	p. 22
Wealth and Social Justice in Industrial America	p. 45
Progressive Americans and the World	p. 69
Popular Culture in the New Era	p. 92
Defending Democracy in Hard Times	p. 114
Questions of Loyalty in War and Peace	p. 138
The Cold War at Home	p. 160
New Frontiers in Activism	p. 184
Racial Justice: Thought and Action	p. 207
Waging the Vietnam War	p. 231
The New Right: Root and Branch	p. 255
Uncharted Territory: America in the Twenty-first Century	p. 283
Index	p. 309
About the Authors	p. 321
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Lives and Times Individuals and Issues in American History: Since 1865

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