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9780534571894

On the Edge The United States Since 1945 (Non-InfoTrac Version)

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  • ISBN13:

    9780534571894

  • ISBN10:

    0534571891

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-07-18
  • Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Summary

This brief paperback covers the social, cultural, and political aspects of U.S. history from the end of World War II through the present. It includes special biographies and boxes on films of each era, as well as maps and photographs that bring each era to life. This interpretive book combines narrative and analytic history with a balanced perspective that covers elites and out-groups, liberals and conservatives, and modernists and traditionalists while explaining how technology, popular culture, and social innovation have affected mainstream life and institutions.

Table of Contents

The Search for Security, 1945-1949
Republican Leadership and the Anti-Communist Crusade, 1950-1954
Eisenhower''s Troubled Concensus, 1954-1960
The Age of Liberal Activism, 1960-1965
Polarized America: Racial Turmoil and Vietnam, 1965-1968
The Embattled Presidency: Nixon, Vietnam, and Watergate, 1968-1976
Struggling Giant: the Carter and Reagan Years, 1976-1988
The Turn to Centrism: Bush and Clinton, 1988-2000
Index
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