These United States : a nation in the making. 1945 to the present

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Cover (These United States: A Nation in the Making: 1945 to the Present) Front Mater Half Title Title Copyright Dedication About the Authors Contents Maps and figures Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1 - A Rising Superpower, 1944–1954 Truman and the Postwar World Order The Origins of the Cold War Reconversion: The Home Front Cold War, First Moves The Election of 1948 Anti-Communism at Home An Escalating Cold War Chapter 2 - Postwar Prosperity and Its Discontents, 1946–1960 Postwar Prosperity The Baby Boom A Nation of Homeowners Life in the Consumers’ Republic Eisenhower’s Middle Ground God’s Country Teens, Sex, Anxiety The Black Freedom Struggle The Covert Cold War Security and Insecurity Chapter 3 - A Season of Change: Liberals and the Limits of Reform, 1960–1966 Kennedy and the Liberal Revival Civil Rights Cold War Crises “Where’s the PEN, Mr. President?” President Johnson The New Right The Great Society Expanding the Boundaries of Citizenship: Voting Rights and Immigration Jobs and Freedom Black Power, White Backlash Chapter 4 - May Day: Vietnam and the Crisis of the 1960s The Origins of the Vietnam War Lyndon Johnson’s War The Antiwar Movement A Working-Class War War at Home: The Urban Rebellions The Collapse in Public Support for the War Tet and Bloody 1968 The Spirit of Rebellion Chapter 5 - Which Side Are You On? The Battle for Middle America, 1968–1974 The Election of 1968: Democratic Fracture Nixon and the “Silent Majority” Nixon in Power Rebellion and Repression Undermining Integration The Personal Is Political The Election of 1972 and Watergate Chapter 6 - A Season of Darkness: The Troubled 1970s The War’s End New Directions in the Cold War Economic Shifts The Oil Shock Recession and Disillusionment The Environmental Crisis The Urban Crisis Political Reform The Carter Presidency The Turn to the Right Chapter 7 - The New Gilded Age, 1980–2000 The Reagan Revolution? The Social Safety Net Religious Revivals “Peace Through Strength” America in the World G. H. W. Bush and the Currents of Republicanism From Cold War to Gulf War The Low-Wage Economy Immigration Politics and the Slumping Economy Clinton and Political Triangulation The Contract with America and Welfare Reform The Boom and Income Inequality Impeachment Foreign Affairs At Century’s End Chapter 8 - United We Stand, Divided We Fall, Since 2000 The Election of 2000 Bush in Office 9/11 The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq The Limits of Conservatism The Election of 2008 Obama and the World Obama and the Limits of “Change” The Burden of History Notes Glossary Appendix Credits Index