Modern American Lives: Individuals and Issues in American History Since 1945: Individuals and Issues in American History Since 1945

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ISBN: 9780765622228 | 076562222X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/15/2008

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This book seeks not only to acquaint students with the lives of a variety of influential Americans during the decades following World War II, but also to provide a comprehensive examination, through those lives, of the critical issues that determined the course of modern American history.

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Preface
Introduction
The Years of Consensus, 1945-1960
Defining the Cold War
Architect of Containment
Champion of the Common Man and Cooperation
Fighting the Cold War at Home
Dissenter in an Age of Conformity
Fighter Against the Red Menace
The Transformation of Popular Culture
Symbol of the New Sexuality
Rock and Roll Rebel
Outsiders in a Conformist Society
Racial Torchbearer in the National Pastime
Avatar of the Beats
Defending Democracy in the Nuclear Age
Apostle of Armageddon
Prophet of the New Left
From Confidence to Crisis, 1960-1980
Civil Rights and Social Justice
Mississippi Freedom Fighter
Guardian of The United Farm Workers Union
Challenges to the Liberal Consensus
New Left Activist
Hero of the New Right
1968: The Hope and the Fear
Herald of the New Politics
Practitioner of the Politics of Rage
Implosions: The Collapse of the Counterculture and the New Left
Troubador of Psychedelia
Reformer, Radical, Revolutionary
The Women's Movement: Revolution and Reaction
Feminist Icon
Counterrevolutionnary on the Right
The Search for New Directions, 1980-Present
The Roaring Eighties: Piety and Profit
Standard-Bearer of the Christian Right
Prophet of Techno-Times
After the Revolution: New Horizons for Black Americans
Golf's Great Black Hope
Black Conservative in Judicial Robes
America and the New World Order
Democratic Imperialist
Radical Gadfly
About the Authors
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