Quest for identity : America since 1945
Woods, Randall Bennett2005
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A survey of the American experience from the close of World War II through the Cold War and 9/11 to the present. Narrative political history and cultural matters and socioeconomic problems...
Main title:
Quest for identity : America since 1945 / by Randall Bennett Woods
Author:
Imprint:
Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2005
Collation:
593 p.
Audience:
TertiaryGeneral
Contents:
1. The republic in transition : demobilization and reconversion -- 2. The origins of the Cold War -- 3. Staying the course : Dwight D. Eisenhower and the politics of moderation -- 4. Containing communism and managing the military-industrial complex : the Eisenhower administration and the Cold War -- 5. Capitalism and conformity : American society, 1945-1960 -- 6. Liberalism reborn : John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and the politics of activism -- 7. The wages of globalism : foreign affairs during the Kennedy-Johnson Era -- 8. The dividing of America : Vietnam, black power, the counterculture, and the election of 1968 -- 9. Realpolitik or imperialism? : Nixon, Kissinger, and American foreign policy -- 10. The limits of expediency : Richard M. Nixon and the American presidency -- 11. From confidence to anxiety : American society, 1960-1980 -- 12. Governing in a Malaise : the presidencies of Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter -- 13. The culture of narcissism : the Reagan era.
ISBN:
0521549973 (pbk)
Dewey class:
973.92 QUE
Local class:
973.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
10552
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 973.92 QUE | Available |