Grand Expectations The United States,

A highly readable and balanced work that weaves the major political, cultural, and economic events of the period into a superb portrait of America from 1945 through Watergate, "Grand Expectations" offers a brilliant summation of the years which created the America we know today. 48 illustrations. 4 maps.

James T. Patterson is Ford Foundation Professor of History at Brown University.

Editor's Introduction
Prologue: August 1945	p. 3
Veterans, Ethnics, Blacks, Women	p. 10
Unions, Liberals, and the State: Stalemate	p. 39
Booms	p. 61
Grand Expectations About the World	p. 82
Hardening of the Cold War, 1945-1948	p. 105
Domestic Politics: Truman's First Term	p. 137
Red Scares Abroad and at Home	p. 165
Korea	p. 207
Ike	p. 243
World Affairs, 1953-1956	p. 276
The Biggest Boom Yet	p. 311
Mass Consumer Culture	p. 343
Race	p. 375
A Center Holds, More or Less, 1957-1960	p. 407
The Polarized Sixties: An Overview	p. 442
The New Frontier at Home	p. 458
JFK and the World	p. 486
Lyndon Johnson and American Liberalism	p. 524
A Great Society and the Rise of Rights-Consciousness	p. 562
Escalation in Vietnam	p. 593
Rights, Polarization, and Backlash, 1966-1967	p. 637
The Most Turbulent Year: 1968	p. 678
Rancor and Richard Nixon	p. 710
Nixon, Vietnam, and The World, 1969-1974	p. 743
End of an Era? Expectations amid Watergate and Recession	p. 771
Bibliographical Essay	p. 791
Index	p. 803
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Grand Expectations The United States, 1945-1974

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