America Since 1945 Penquin Academic Edition

by Brands, H. W.

• ISBN13: 9780205568482
• ISBN10: 0205568483
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-28
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

America Since 1945is an engaging narrative from bestselling Historian H.W. Brands that tells of an America at the apex of global power with dreams of prosperity and limitless power as the second half of the century lay ahead. Brands traces the events and their significance, in addition to how they are connected, that have shaped America since 1945. The booktells of a country that had vanquished the despair and poverty of the Great Depression, conquered the evil of militant fascism during World War II and was looking ahead with infinite promise. Brands details the changes America has gone through since 1945 to reveal the themes and ambitions that have driven America, all while capturing the national experiences of the last six decades to bare the still unfolding legacy of dreams born out of a global upheaval.   America Since 1945is the Penguin Academic Edition of bestseller Brands' America Dreams, which chronicles the events and circumstances that have guided America from Okinawa to the Great Recession.

Author Biography

H. W. Brands

H.W. Brands is the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of numerous works of history and international affairs, including The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War (1993), Into the Labyrinth: The United States and the Middle East (1994), The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (1995), TR: The Last Romantic (a biography of Theodore Roosevelt) (1997), What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (1998), The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (2000), The Strange Death of American Liberalism (2001), The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (2002), Woodrow Wilson (2003) and Andrew Jackson (2005). His writing has received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller. He lectures frequently across North America and in Europe. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and Atlantic Monthly. He is a regular guest on radio and television and has participated in several historical documentary films.

 

Table of Contents

MySearchLab Connections	p. xi
Preface	p. xiv
About the Author	p. xv
Visions of Omnipotence: 1945-1965
Last One Standing: 1945-1946	p. 1
Sunrise at Alamogordo	p. 1
The Looming Shadow	p. 4
The Dynamo of Ambition	p. 6
When Johnny Comes Marching Home	p. 10
What (Else) Roosevelt Hath Wrought	p. 14
Flames and a Kiss	p. 16
Review Questions	p. 19
Suggested Readings	p. 19
MySearchLab Connections	p. 20
The War That Never Ended: 1946-1948	p. 21
Mild about Harry	p. 21
Sounding the Tocsin	p. 24
A Concept and a Doctrine	p. 27
Cold War Dissenters	p. 30
A Man with a Plan	p. 32
One If by Land, Two If by Air	p. 34
Dewey? Or Don't We?	p. 36
Review Questions	p. 39
Suggested Readings	p. 39
MySearchLab Connections	p. 39
Agnostics and Believers: 1949-1954	p. 40
Institutionalizing the Revolution	p. 40
The China Syndrome	p. 42
Tail-Gunner Joe	p. 44
Redefining the Perimeter	p. 48
Liking Ike	p. 52
The Quiet Americans	p. 54
The Shadow Lengthens	p. 57
Review Questions	p. 59
Suggested Readings	p. 59
MySearchLab Connections	p. 59
The Golden Age of the Middle Class: 1955-1960	p. 60
Boom!	p. 60
General Eisenhower, Meet General Motors	p. 62
The Magic Kingdom and the King	p. 64
Our Town, Your Town	p. 67
Men in Gray Flannel Suits	p. 69
On the Road	p. 72
From the Back of the Bus	p. 73
Before the Eyes of the World	p. 78
Reheating the Cold War	p. 80
The Heavens Above	p. 82
A Cold War Complex	p. 85
Review Questions	p. 86
Suggested Readings	p. 86
MySearchLab Connections	p. 87
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight: 1961-1965	p. 88
The New Frontiersmen	p. 88
To the Brink	p. 91
Dreams of a Better Day	p. 95
Lyndon Johnson's Stetson	p. 101
Free at last?	p. 104
A Greater Society	p. 107
Crossing the Bridge	p. 110
Review Questions	p. 113
Suggested Readings	p. 113
MySearchLab Connections	p. 113
The Twilight of Liberalism: 1965-1986
Paved with Good Intentions: 1965-1968	p. 114
What Asian Boys Ought To Be Doing	p. 114
A New War	p. 118
Into the Jungle	p. 122
Summer of Love	p. 125
Summers of Violence	p. 127
Hey, Hey, LBJ …	p. 131
The Handwriting on the Embassy Wall	p. 133
Review Questions	p. 135
Suggested Readings	p. 136
MySearchLab Connections	p. 136
The Triumph of Cynicism: 1968-1974	p. 137
The Cruelest Season	p. 137
The Rise of Richard Nixon	p. 139
The Highest Ground	p. 142
Means and Ends	p. 145
From Beijing to Moscow …	p. 147
… to Paris	p. 149
NOW or Never	p. 150
It's Not the Crime, It's the Cover-Up	p. 154
Review Questions	p. 160
Suggested Readings	p. 160
MySearchLab Connections	p. 160
Days of Malaise: 1974-1979	p. 162
Dirty Laundry and Family Jewels	p. 162
Running on Empty	p. 165
A Ford, Not a Lincoln; a Carter, Not a Ford	p. 170
Beyond Containment	p. 172
Neither Confidence …	p. 175
… Nor Decisiveness	p. 176
Trapped in Tehran	p. 178
The Bad News Gets Worse	p. 181
Review Questions	p. 183
Suggested Readings	p. 183
MySearchLab Connections	p. 184
South by Southwest: 1979-1983	p. 185
From Hollywood to Washington	p. 185
Standing Tall	p. 189
The Only Good Tax …	p. 192
With God on Our Side	p. 193
Dawn for the Sunbelt	p. 198
Red Ink and Red Tape	p. 201
Review Questions	p. 204
Suggested Readings	p. 204
MySearchLab Connections	p. 205
Fire or Iceland: 1983-1987	p. 206
Touch Talk, Soft Walk?	p. 206
Whose Side Are We On?	p. 208
Bombed in Beirut	p. 210
Nails in the Liberal Coffin	p. 212
To Tehran with Chocolate	p. 214
Beyond the Closet	p. 218
Apocalypse over Manhattan	p. 222
So Close	p. 224
Review Questions	p. 228
Suggested Readings	p. 228
MySearchLab Connections	p. 228
Silicon Schemes and Global Connections: 1987-2009
History Without End: 1987-1991	p. 229
St. Alan and the Dragon	p. 229
Just Say … Maybe?	p. 231
Their Way	p. 233
Soft Landing	p. 237
Who's Next?	p. 239
Bush v. Saddam (I)	p. 242
The World in Real Time	p. 246
Review Questions	p. 250
Suggested Readings	p. 250
MySearchLab Connections	p. 250
The Good Old Bad Old Days: 1992-1996	p. 251
Read Their Lips: No Second Term	p. 251
Don't Ask or Tell	p. 253
One Plus One Equals … ?	p. 255
His Airness	p. 258
First Glimpses of a New Specter	p. 261
Both Sides Blinked	p. 263
Missing the Cold War	p. 267
Review Questions	p. 271
Suggested Readings	p. 271
MySearchLab Connections	p. 272
Culture Clash: 1996-2000	p. 273
Not Since FDR	p. 273
Slick Willy in the Starr Chamber	p. 275
Sex, Lies, and Politics	p. 280
Bubble and Boil	p. 283
The Battle of Seattle	p. 287
Not Quite War, Not Quite Peace	p. 292
Review Questions	p. 295
Suggested Readings	p. 295
MySearchLab Connections	p. 295
Blowback: 2000-2004	p. 296
Bush 5, Gore 4	p. 296
That Old Time Religion	p. 299
September 11	p. 300
A New Kind of War	p. 304
Strike One, Strike Two	p. 307
The Road to Baghdad	p. 311
The Morning After	p. 313
Review Questions	p. 317
Suggested Readings	p. 317
MySearchLab Connections	p. 317
Still Dreaming: 2005-2009	p. 318
The Changing Climate of Climate Change	p. 318
The Golden Door-and a Concrete Wall?	p. 321
Wired	p. 324
Shades of the Thirties	p. 326
Dreams of His Father	p. 328
Franklin Delano Obama?	p. 330
Still Dreaming	p. 332
Review Questions	p. 334
Suggested Readings	p. 334
MySearchLab Connections	p. 335
Credits	p. 336
Index	p. 337
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