Modern America: A Documentary History of the Nation Since 1945: A Documentary History of the Nation Since 1945Routledge, 18 дек. 2014 г. - Всего страниц: 360 This primary source reader assembles key documents and firsthand accounts that are emblematic of American life from the end of World War II to the present. Designed to complement a core text for a typical post-1945 U.S. history course, the book offers conciseness and selectivity with balanced coverage of domestic and foreign, societal and cultural issues grouped together chronologically. The readings afford students compelling and sometimes startling insights into the nation's postwar adaptation to its new position of global power and responsibility, wealth, and rapid social change; on through years of energy and ambition, conflict and tragedy, to the post-Vietnam malaise and the rise of Ronald Reagan, the frenzied nineties, and the arrival of the new millennium. Each chapter includes an introduction that sets the documents in historical context, a biographical sketch of a significant person of the time, study questions, and suggestions for further reading. |
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3 Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement | 45 |
4 The Eisenhower Administrations New Look Foreign Policy | 64 |
5 The Fifties Lifestyle | 78 |
6 The Cold War Heats Up During the Kennedy Administration | 97 |
7 Lyndon Johnsons War | 115 |
8 Sixties Society and Culture | 128 |
12 Nixon and the End of US Involvement in Indochina | 194 |
13 The Environmental and Consumer Movements | 209 |
14 The Tragedy of Watergate | 226 |
15 Feminism and American Society | 238 |
16 The Emergence of Ronald Reagan and the New Right | 257 |
17 The Reagan Foreign Policy and a New Soviet Confrontation | 272 |
18 More Culture Wars | 289 |
19 Bill Clintons America and the Impeachment of a President | 306 |
9 Political Trends on the Left and the Right | 141 |
10 Civil Rights Victories and Divisions | 164 |
11 Polarization and Protest | 181 |
20 The Election of George W Bush Terrorism and the Crisis in the Gulf | 325 |
About the Editor | 346 |
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