Format:
1 online resource (390 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781119027461
Series Statement:
New York Academy of Sciences Series
Content:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude: The Imperial Logic of the American Dream -- Part I The Postwar Decades -- Chapter 1 Victory and Anxiety: World War and Cold War, 1945-1962 -- Colony to Colonizer: American Rise to Globalism -- Wages of War: Triumph over Germany and Japan -- First Frost: Dawn of the Cold War -- Seeing Red: The Cold War at Home -- Playing with Dominoes: Cold War Hot Spots -- Cold War Showdown: Cuba -- culture watch: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955/1956) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Conformity and Rebellion: American Culture and Politics, 1945-1963 -- Best Worst Time: Early Postwar Years -- Boom! The Postwar Economy Explodes -- Rising Suburbs: Life on the Crabgrass Frontier -- Restless in the Promised Land: Suburbia's Critics -- Free Movement: Early Civil Rights Struggles -- Big Bangs: 1950s Youth Culture -- culture watch: A Raisin in the Sun (1959) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Part II The Long 1960s -- Chapter 3 Confidence and Agitation: The American Empire at High Tide, 1960-1965 -- Dishing: The Kitchen Debate as Domestic Squabble -- American Prince: JFK -- Grand Expectations: The Birth of "the Sixties" -- Overcoming: The Civil Rights Movement Crests -- Voices: Popular Culture of the Early 1960s -- Countercurrents: Civil Rights Skeptics -- Lone Star Rising: The LBJ Moment -- Flanking Maneuver: Johnson in Vietnam -- Fissures: Democratic Fault Lines -- culture watch: "The Times They Are A-Changin'" (1964) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Fulfillment and Frustration: An Empire in Conflict, 1965-1974 -- Over the Moon: Winning the Space Race -- Imperial Quagmire: The Vietnam Wars -- Down from the Mountaintop: The Civil Rights Movement -- Turning Point: 1968 -- Right Rising: The Return of Richard Nixon.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781119027355
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781119027355
Language:
English
