"In brisk, vivid prose, the book covers the broad sweep of post-1945 U.S. history, addressing politics, economics, foreign relations, political activism, demographic transformation, and dizzying technological change. Extending to the spring of 2022, it shows how the turmoil, striving, triumphs, and setbacks of the last 77 years shaped today's world"--
"In brisk, vivid prose, the book covers the broad sweep of post-1945 U.S. history, addressing politics, economics, foreign relations, political activism, demographic transformation, and dizzying technological change. Extending to the spring of 2022, it shows how the turmoil, striving, triumphs, and setbacks of the last 77 years shaped today's world"--
Salim Yaqub is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he directs the Center for Cold War Studies and International History. He is the author of two previous books, Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East (2004) and Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and US¿Middle East Relations in the 1970s (2016).
Inhaltsangabe
Preface; Introduction; 1. Wake up Willie: from war to postwar, 1945 1948; 2. We may not now relax our guard: hot war abroad and cold war at home, 1949 1954; 3. It's like turning over a rock: America in the fifties; 4. Listen, Yankee: the transformation of America's Cold War, 1956 1963; 5. Is this America?: civil rights and the liberal movement, 1960 1965; 6. Berkeley Cong: fighting abroad and unraveling at home, 1963 1968; 7. Expletive deleted: the presidency of Richard Nixon, 1969 1974; 8. Great blinding lightbulb: women's rights, gay and lesbian rights, and new understandings of gender, sexuality, and family, 1960 1975; 9. Soylent Green is people: America in the seventies; 10. The picture always overrides: America in the Reagan years, 1981 1989; 11. To look over the horizon: from New Cold War to New World Order, 1981 1991; 12. Triangulation: the nineties and Bill Clinton; 13. Freedom fries: George W. Bush, 9/11, and the Iraq war, 2001 2008; 14. Yes we can't: American politics, 2009 2015; 15. Crossfire hurricane: the Trump years, 2015 2021; Epilogue; Index.
Preface; Introduction; 1. Wake up Willie: from war to postwar, 1945 1948; 2. We may not now relax our guard: hot war abroad and cold war at home, 1949 1954; 3. It's like turning over a rock: America in the fifties; 4. Listen, Yankee: the transformation of America's Cold War, 1956 1963; 5. Is this America?: civil rights and the liberal movement, 1960 1965; 6. Berkeley Cong: fighting abroad and unraveling at home, 1963 1968; 7. Expletive deleted: the presidency of Richard Nixon, 1969 1974; 8. Great blinding lightbulb: women's rights, gay and lesbian rights, and new understandings of gender, sexuality, and family, 1960 1975; 9. Soylent Green is people: America in the seventies; 10. The picture always overrides: America in the Reagan years, 1981 1989; 11. To look over the horizon: from New Cold War to New World Order, 1981 1991; 12. Triangulation: the nineties and Bill Clinton; 13. Freedom fries: George W. Bush, 9/11, and the Iraq war, 2001 2008; 14. Yes we can't: American politics, 2009 2015; 15. Crossfire hurricane: the Trump years, 2015 2021; Epilogue; Index.
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