Liberty, Equality, and Power A History of the American People, Volume II: Since 1863 (with CD-ROM, American Journey Online, and InfoTrac)

by Murrin, John M.; Johnson, Paul E.; McPherson, James M.; Gerstle, Gary; Rosenberg, Emily S.

• ISBN13: 9780534627324
• ISBN10: 0534627323
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-24
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

(Single volume contains Chapters 131, Volume I: To 1877 contains Chapters 117, Volume II: Since 1863 contains Chapters 1731) 17. Reconstruction, 1863-1877. 18. Frontiers of Change, Politics of Stalemate, 1865-1890. 19. Economic Change and the Crisis of the 1890s. 20. An Industrial Society, 1890-1920. 21. Progressivism. 22. Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917. 23. War and Society, 1914-1920. 24. The 1920s. 25. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939. 26. America during the Second World War. 27. The Age of Containment, 1946-1954. 28. Affluence and Its Discontents, 1954-1963. 29. America during Its Longest War, 1963-1974. 30. Economic and Social Change in the Late 20th Century. 31. Power and Politics Since 1974.

Table of Contents

Reconstruction, 1863--1877	534	(28)
Wartime Reconstruction	536	(2)
Chronology	536	(1)
Radical Republicans and Reconstruction	536	(2)
Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction	538	(4)
Johnson's Policy	538	(1)
Southern Defiance	539	(1)
The Black Codes	540	(1)
Land and Labor in the Postwar South	540	(1)
The Freedmen's Bureau	540	(1)
Land for the Landless	541	(1)
Education	542	(1)
The Advent of Congressional Reconstruction	542	(3)
Schism between President and Congress	543	(1)
The 14th Amendment	544	(1)
The 1866 Elections	544	(1)
The Reconstruction Acts of 1867	544	(1)
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson	545	(4)
The Completion of Formal Reconstruction	546	(1)
The 15th Amendment	547	(1)
The Election of 1868	547	(1)
Americans Abroad	548	(1)
Dan Sickles Tries to Provoke War with Spain
The Grant Administration	549	(6)
Civil Service Reform	549	(1)
Foreign Policy Issues	550	(1)
Reconstruction in the South	550	(1)
Blacks in Office	551	(1)
``Carpetbaggers''	551	(1)
``Scalawags''	552	(1)
History Through Film	552	(1)
The Birth of a Nation
The Ku Klux Klan	553	(1)
The Election of 1872	554	(1)
The Panic of 1873	555	(1)
The Retreat from Reconstruction	555	(5)
The Mississippi Election of 1875	555	(1)
The Supreme Court and Reconstruction	556	(1)
The Election of 1876	557	(1)
Link to the Past	557	(1)
Frederick Douglass on the Supreme Court and Civil Rights
Disputed Results	558	(1)
The Compromise of 1877	559	(1)
The End of Reconstruction	560	(1)
Conclusion	560	(1)
Suggested Readings	560	(2)
Frontiers of Change, Politics of Stalemate, 1865--1898	562	(20)
Agencies of Westward Expansion	564	(3)
Chronology	564	(1)
The Mining Frontier	565	(1)
The Ranching Frontier	565	(2)
The Last Indian Frontier	567	(8)
Conflict with the Sioux	568	(1)
Americans Abroad	569	(1)
Jennie Jerome Churchill's Contribution to the Anglo-American Alliance
History Through Film	570	(1)
Fort Apache
Suppression of Other Plains Indians	571	(2)
The ``Peace Policy''	573	(1)
Mexican Americans	574	(1)
The New South	575	(3)
Southern Industry	575	(1)
Southern Agriculture	576	(1)
Race Relations in the New South	577	(1)
The Politics of Stalemate	578	(2)
Knife-Edge Electoral Balance	578	(1)
Link to the Past	578	(1)
Waving the Bloody Shirt
Civil Service Reform	579	(1)
The Tariff Issue	580	(1)
Conclusion	580	(1)
Suggested Readings	581	(1)
Economic Change and the Crisis of the 1890s	582	(26)
Economic Growth	584	(1)
Chronology	584	(1)
Railroads	584	(1)
Technology	585	(1)
The American Middle Class	585	(7)
The Philadelphia Centennial Exposition	585	(1)
Gilded Age Cities	586	(1)
The American Museum	586	(1)
Americans Abroad	587	(1)
William Randolph Hearst: Collecting the Art of Europe
The Department Store and Mail-Order Catalogs	588	(1)
Advertising and Magazines	588	(1)
African American Middle-Class Culture	589	(1)
The New Woman	590	(1)
The World's Columbian Exhibition	591	(1)
Wealth and Inequality	592	(2)
History Through Film	593	(1)
The Molly Maguires
The Antitrust Movement	594	(1)
Labor Strife	594	(5)
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877	595	(1)
The Knights of Labor	595	(1)
Haymarket	596	(1)
Henry George	596	(1)
Edward Bellamy	597	(1)
The Homestead Strike	597	(1)
The Depression of 1893--1897	597	(1)
The Pullman Strike	598	(1)
Farmers' Movements	599	(3)
Credit and Money	600	(1)
The Greenback and Silver Movements	601	(1)
The Farmers' Alliance	602	(1)
The Rise and Fall of the People's Party	602	(3)
The Silver Issue	603	(1)
The Election of 1896	604	(1)
Link to the Past	604	(1)
William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech
Conclusion	605	(1)
Suggested Readings	606	(2)
An Industrial Society, 1890--1920	608	(30)
Sources of Economic Growth	610	(8)
Chronology	610	(1)
Technology	610	(1)
Corporate Growth	611	(1)
Mass Production and Distribution	611	(2)
Corporate Consolidation	613	(1)
Revolution in Management	614	(1)
Scientific Management on the Factory Floor	614	(2)
``Robber Barons'' No More	616	(1)
Americans Abroad	617	(1)
The Luce Family and China: Missionary Work, Education, and the Origins of an American Media Empire
Obsession with Physical and Racial Fitness	618	(1)
Social Darwinism	619	(1)
Immigration	619	(6)
European Immigration	620	(2)
Chinese and Japanese Immigration	622	(1)
Immigrant Labor	623	(1)
Living Conditions	624	(1)
Building Ethnic Communities	625	(2)
A Network of Institutions	625	(1)
The Emergence of an Ethnic Middle Class	625	(1)
Political Machines and Organized Crime	626	(1)
African American Labor and Community	627	(2)
Workers and Unions	629	(4)
Samuel F. Gompers and the AFL	630	(1)
Musical Link to the Past	630	(2)
Before Jazz: An Early African American Orchestra
``Big Bill'' Haywood and the IWW	632	(1)
The Joys of the City	633	(1)
The New Sexuality and the Rise of Feminism	634	(2)
Feminism	634	(1)
History Through Film	634	(2)
The Great White Hope
Conclusion	636	(1)
Suggested Readings	637	(1)
Progressivism	638	(32)
Progressivism and the Protestant Spirit	640	(1)
Chronology	640	(1)
Muckrakers, Magazines, and the Turn toward ``Realism''	641	(2)
Increased Newspaper and Magazine Circulation	641	(1)
The Turn Toward ``Realism''	642	(1)
Settlement Houses and Women's Activism	643	(3)
Hull House	643	(1)
The Cultural Conservatism of Progressive Reformers	644	(1)
Americans Abroad	645	(1)
Florence Kelley: A European-Inspired Search of Social Justice
A Nation of Clubwomen	646	(1)
Socialism and Progressivism	646	(2)
The Many Faces of Socialism	646	(1)
Socialists and Progressives	647	(1)
Municipal Reform	648	(1)
The City Commission Plan	648	(1)
The City Manager Plan	649	(1)
The Costs of Reform	649	(1)
Political Reform in the States	649	(5)
Restoring Sovereignty to ``the People''	649	(1)
Creating a Virtuous Electorate	650	(1)
The Australian Ballot	650	(1)
Personal Registration Laws	650	(1)
Disfranchisement	650	(1)
Disillusionment with the Electorate	651	(1)
Woman Suffrage	652	(1)
Link to the Past	653	(1)
Humor and the Woman Suffrage Movement
Economic and Social Reform in the States	654	(1)
Robert La Follette and Wisconsin Progressivism	654	(1)
Progressive Reform in New York	655	(1)
A Renewed Campaign for Civil Rights	655	(2)
The Failure of Accommodationism	655	(1)
From the Niagara Movement to the NAACP	656	(1)
National Reform	657	(4)
The Roosevelt Presidency	658	(1)
Regulating the Trusts	658	(1)
Toward a ``Square Deal''	658	(1)
Expanding Government Power: The Economy	659	(1)
Expanding Government Power: The Environment	659	(1)
Progressivism: A Movement for the People?	660	(1)
The Republicans: A Divided Party	660	(1)
The Taft Presidency	661	(1)
Battling Congress	661	(1)
The Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy	661	(1)
Roosevelt's Return	661	(1)
The Bull Moose Campaign	662	(1)
The Rise of Woodrow Wilson	662	(1)
The Election of 1912	663	(1)
The Wilson Presidency	663	(5)
Tariff Reform and a Progressive Income Tax	664	(1)
The Federal Reserve Act	664	(1)
From the New Freedom to the New Nationalism	665	(1)
History Through Film
Wilson	666	(2)
Conclusion	668	(1)
Suggested Readings	668	(2)
Becoming a World Power, 1898--1917	670	(28)
The United States Looks Abroad	672	(4)
Chronology	672	(1)
Protestant Missionaries	672	(1)
Businessmen	672	(1)
Imperialists	673	(1)
Americans Abroad	674	(2)
Henry Morton Stanley: Journalist, Explorer, Colonizer
The Spanish-American War	676	(4)
``A Splendid Little War''	677	(3)
The United States Becomes a World Power	680	(6)
The Debate over the Treaty of Paris	681	(1)
The American-Filipino War	682	(1)
Controlling Cuba and Puerto Rico	683	(1)
Musical Link to the Past	683	(2)
Music for Patriots
China and the ``Open Door''	685	(1)
Theodore Roosevelt, Geopolitician	686	(6)
The Roosevelt Corollary	687	(1)
The Panama Canal	687	(1)
History Through Film	688	(2)
Tarzan, the Ape Man
Keeping the Peace in East Asia	690	(2)
William Howard Taft, Dollar Diplomat	692	(2)
Woodrow Wilson, Struggling Idealist	694	(1)
Conclusion	695	(1)
Suggested Readings	696	(2)
War and Society, 1914--1920	698	(32)
Europe's Descent into War	700	(2)
Chronology	700	(2)
American Neutrality	702	(3)
Submarine Warfare	703	(1)
Peace Movement	703	(1)
Wilson's Vision: ``Peace without Victory''	704	(1)
German Escalation	705	(1)
American Intervention	705	(3)
Mobilizing for ``Total'' War	708	(10)
Organizing Industry	708	(1)
Securing Workers, Keeping Labor Peace	708	(1)
Americans Abroad	709	(2)
Herbert C. Hoover: International Mining Engineer and Businessman
Raising an Army	711	(1)
Link to the Past	711	(3)
``A Storm of Our People toward the North''
Paying the Bills	714	(1)
Arousing Patriotic Ardor	714	(2)
Wartime Repression	716	(2)
The Failure of the International Peace	718	(5)
The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles	719	(1)
The League of Nations	720	(1)
Wilson versus Lodge: The Fight over Ratification	721	(1)
The Treaty's Final Defeat	722	(1)
The Postwar Period: A Society in Convulsion	723	(5)
Labor-Capital Conflict	723	(1)
History Through Film	724	(1)
Reds
Radicals and the Red Scare	725	(1)
Racial Conflict and the Rise of Black Nationalism	726	(2)
Conclusion	728	(1)
Suggested Readings	728	(2)
The 1920s	730	(34)
Prosperity	732	(9)
Chronology	732	(1)
A Consumer Society	732	(2)
A People's Capitalism	734	(1)
The Rise of Advertising and Mass Marketing	734	(2)
Changing Attitudes toward Marriage and Sexuality	736	(1)
An Age of Celebrity	736	(1)
Celebrating Business Civilization	737	(1)
Industrial Workers	738	(1)
Women and Work	739	(1)
The Women's Movement Adrift	740	(1)
The Politics of Business	741	(3)
Harding and the Politics of Personal Gain	741	(1)
Coolidge and Laissez-Faire Politics	742	(1)
Hoover and the Politics of Associationalism	742	(1)
The Politics of Business Abroad	743	(1)
Farmers, Small-Town Protestants, and Moral Traditionalists	744	(9)
Agricultural Depression	744	(1)
Cultural Dislocation	745	(2)
Prohibition	747	(1)
Musical Link to the Past	747	(1)
Women Singers and the Birth of Modern Country Music
The Ku Klux Klan	748	(1)
Immigration Restriction	749	(1)
Fundamentalism versus Liberal Protestantism	750	(1)
The Scopes Trial	751	(1)
History Through Film	752	(1)
The Jazz Singer
Ethnic and Racial Communities	753	(6)
European American Ethnics	753	(2)
African Americans	755	(2)
The Harlem Renaissance	757	(1)
Mexican Americans	758	(1)
The ``Lost Generation'' and Disillusioned Intellectuals	759	(3)
Americans Abroad	760	(1)
Josephine Baker: An African American Entertainer in Paris
Democracy on the Defensive	761	(1)
Conclusion	762	(1)
Suggested Readings	763	(1)
The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929--1939	764	(36)
Causes of the Great Depression	766	(2)
Chronology	766	(1)
Stock Market Speculation	767	(1)
Mistakes by the Federal Reserve Board	767	(1)
An Ill-Advised Tariff	767	(1)
A Maldistribution of Wealth	767	(1)
Hoover: The Fall of a Self-Made Man	768	(1)
Hoover's Program	768	(1)
The Bonus Army	769	(1)
A Culture in Crisis	769	(3)
Americans Abroad	771	(1)
Margaret Mead: Studying the South Pacific
The Democratic Roosevelt	772	(1)
An Early Life of Privilege	772	(1)
Roosevelt Liberalism	772	(1)
The First New Deal, 1933--1935	773	(8)
Saving the Banks	774	(1)
Economic Relief	775	(1)
Agricultural Reform	775	(1)
Industrial Reform	776	(2)
Rebuilding the Nation's Infrastructure	778	(1)
The TVA Alternative	778	(1)
The New Deal and Western Development	779	(2)
Political Mobilization, Political Unrest, 1934--1935	781	(2)
Populist Critics of the New Deal	781	(1)
Labor Protests	782	(1)
Anger at the Polls	782	(1)
Radical Third Parties	783	(1)
The Second New Deal, 1935--1937	783	(9)
Philosophical Underpinnings	783	(1)
Legislation	784	(1)
History Through Film	784	(3)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Victory in 1936: The New Democratic Coalition	787	(1)
Rhetoric Versus Reality	788	(1)
Men, Women, and Reform	788	(2)
Labor in Politics and Culture	790	(2)
America's Minorities and the New Deal	792	(3)
Eastern and Southern European Ethnics	792	(1)
African Americans	792	(1)
Mexican Americans	793	(1)
Musical Link to the Past	793	(1)
An African American Rhapsody
American Indians	794	(1)
The New Deal Abroad	795	(1)
Stalemate, 1937--1940	796	(1)
The Court-Packing Fiasco	796	(1)
The Recession of 1937--1938	797	(1)
Conclusion	797	(1)
Suggested Readings	798	(2)
America during the Second World War	800	(36)
The Road to War: Aggression and Response	802	(7)
Chronology	802	(1)
The Rise of Aggressor States	802	(1)
Isolationist Sentiment and American Neutrality	803	(1)
Growing Interventionist Sentiment	803	(1)
The Mounting Crisis	803	(1)
The Outbreak of War in Europe	804	(1)
America's Response to War in Europe	804	(2)
Americans Abroad	806	(1)
Margaret Bourke-White: Adventure as a Photojournalist
An ``Arsenal of Democracy''	807	(1)
Pearl Harbor	808	(1)
Fighting the War in Europe	809	(5)
Campaigns in North Africa and Italy	810	(1)
Operation Overlord	811	(1)
History Through Film	812	(2)
Saving Private Ryan
The Pacific Theater	814	(4)
Seizing the Initiative in the Pacific	815	(1)
China Policy	815	(1)
Pacific Strategy	815	(3)
A New President	818	(3)
Atomic Power and Japanese Surrender	819	(2)
The War at Home: The Economy	821	(4)
Government's Role in the Economy	821	(1)
Business and Finance	821	(1)
The Workforce	822	(1)
Labor Unions	823	(2)
Assessing Economic Change	825	(1)
The War at Home: Social Issues	825	(6)
Wartime Propaganda	825	(1)
Gender Equality	826	(1)
Racial Equality	827	(1)
Racial Tensions	828	(1)
Link to the Past	829	(2)
Civil Liberties in Wartime: Korematsu v. United States
Shaping the Peace	831	(2)
International Organizations	831	(1)
Spheres of Interest and Postwar Settlements	832	(1)
Conclusion	833	(1)
Suggested Readings	834	(2)
The Age of Containment, 1946--1954	836	(32)
Creating a National Security State, 1945--1949	838	(5)
Chronology	838	(1)
Onset of the Cold War	838	(1)
Containment Abroad: The Truman Doctrine	839	(1)
Truman's Loyalty Program	840	(1)
The National Security Act, the Marshall Plan, and the Berlin Crisis	840	(2)
The Election of 1948	842	(1)
The Korean War Era, 1949--1952	843	(7)
NATO, China, and the Bomb	843	(2)
NSC-68	845	(1)
The Korean War	845	(3)
Korea and Containment	848	(1)
Americans Abroad	849	(1)
Edward Lansdale: Psy-ops in the Cold War
Containment at Home	850	(6)
Anticommunism and the Labor Movement	850	(1)
HUAC and the Loyalty Program	851	(1)
History Through Film	852	(1)
High Noon
Targeting Difference	853	(1)
The ``Great Fear''	854	(1)
McCarthyism	855	(1)
Truman's Fair Deal	856	(5)
Link to the Past	856	(1)
Senator McCarthy Interrogates Composer Aaron Copland
The Employment Act of 1946 and the Promise of Economic Growth	857	(1)
Shaping the Fair Deal	858	(2)
Civil Rights	860	(1)
A Changing Culture	861	(4)
Jackie Robinson and the Baseball ``Color Line''	861	(1)
Suburban Development	862	(1)
Musical Link to the Past	862	(2)
Big Band to Bebop
Allure and Danger: Women on Film	864	(1)
From Truman to Eisenhower	865	(1)
The Election of 1952	865	(1)
A Soldier-President	865	(1)
Conclusion	866	(1)
Suggested Readings	866	(2)
Affluence and Its Discontents, 1953--1963	868	(36)
Foreign Policy, 1953--1960	870	(3)
Chronology	870	(1)
Eisenhower Takes Command	870	(1)
The New Look and Summitry	871	(1)
Americans Abroad	872	(1)
Willis Conover: Fighting the Cold War with Jazz
Covert Action and Economic Leverage	873	(1)
America and the Third World	873	(4)
Latin America	873	(1)
Nasserism and the Suez Crisis of 1956	874	(1)
Vietnam	874	(2)
Link to the Past	876	(1)
A Warning about the Future: President Dwight Eisenhower's Farewell Address, 1961
Affluence---A ``People of Plenty''	877	(4)
Economic Growth	877	(2)
Highways and Waterways	879	(1)
Labor--Management Accord	880	(1)
Political Pluralism	880	(1)
A Religious People	881	(1)
Discontents of Affluence	881	(3)
Conformity in an Affluent Society	881	(1)
Restive Youth	882	(1)
The Mass Culture Debate	883	(1)
Changing Gender Patterns	884	(2)
The New Suburbs and Gender Ideals	884	(1)
Women's Changing Roles	885	(1)
The Fight against Discrimination, 1953--1960	886	(5)
The Brown Cases, 1954--1955	886	(2)
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and Martin Luther King, Jr.	888	(1)
The Domestic and International Politics of Civil Rights	888	(1)
American Indian Policy	889	(1)
The Growth of Spanish-Speaking Populations	890	(1)
Urban-Suburban Issues	891	(1)
Debating the Role of Government	891	(2)
The New Conservatives	891	(1)
Advocates of a More Active Government	892	(1)
The Kennedy Years: Foreign Policy	893	(3)
The Election of 1960	894	(1)
Kennedy's Foreign Policy Goals	895	(1)
Cuba and Berlin	895	(1)
Southeast Asia and ``Flexible Response''	896	(1)
The Kennedy Years: Domestic Policy	896	(4)
Policy Making under Kennedy	897	(1)
The Civil Rights Movement, 1960--1963	897	(2)
Women's Issues	899	(1)
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy	899	(1)
History Through Film	900	(1)
JFK
Conclusion	900	(2)
Suggested Readings	902	(2)
America during Its Longest War, 1963--1974	904	(32)
The Great Society	906	(4)
Chronology	906	(1)
Closing the New Frontier	906	(2)
The Election of 1964	908	(1)
Lyndon Johnson's Great Society	909	(1)
Evaluating the Great Society	909	(1)
Escalation in Vietnam	910	(4)
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution	910	(1)
The War Widens	911	(2)
The Media and the War	913	(1)
The War at Home	914	(10)
A New Left	914	(2)
The Counterculture	916	(1)
Musical Link to the Past	916	(1)
The Folk-Rock Moment
From Civil Rights to Black Power	917	(1)
Americans Abroad	918	(1)
Cassius Clay / Muhammad Ali: Champion of the Whole World
1968: The Violence Overseas	919	(1)
History Through Film	920	(1)
Malcolm X
1968: The Violence at Home	921	(1)
Link to the Past	922	(1)
Singing for Freedom: ``We Shall Overcome''
The Election of 1968	923	(1)
The Nixon Years, 1969--1974	924	(4)
The Economy	924	(1)
Social Policy	925	(1)
Environmentalism	926	(1)
Controversies over Rights	927	(1)
Foreign Policy under Nixon and Kissinger	928	(3)
Detente	928	(1)
Vietnamization	929	(1)
The Aftermath of War	930	(1)
Expanding the Nixon Doctrine	931	(1)
The Wars of Watergate	931	(3)
The Election of 1972	931	(1)
Nixon Pursued	932	(1)
Nixon's Final Days	933	(1)
Conclusion	934	(1)
Suggested Readings	934	(2)
Economic and Social Change in the Late 20th Century	936	(36)
A Changing People	938	(7)
Chronology	938	(1)
An Aging Population	938	(1)
The Rise of the Sunbelt	938	(2)
New Immigration	940	(3)
Urbanization and Suburbanization	943	(2)
Economic Transformations	945	(4)
New Technologies	945	(1)
Americans Abroad	946	(1)
Norman Borlaug: The ``Green Revolution''
Big Business	946	(2)
Postindustrial Restructuring	948	(1)
Media and Culture	949	(6)
The Video Revolution	950	(1)
The ``New Hollywood''	951	(1)
Musical Link to the Past	951	(1)
Not for Women Only
History Through Film	952	(1)
Star Wars
The Changing Media Environment	953	(1)
The New Mass Culture Debate	954	(1)
Social Activism	955	(4)
Women's Issues	955	(1)
Link to the Past	956	(1)
Cultural Disagreements: Equality for Women?
Sexual Politics	957	(2)
Race, Ethnicity, and Social Activism	959	(8)
African American Activism	959	(1)
American Indian Activism	960	(3)
Activism in Spanish-Speaking Communities	963	(1)
Asian American Activism	964	(1)
The Dilemmas of Antidiscrimination Efforts	965	(2)
The New Right	967	(2)
New Conservative Institutions	967	(1)
The New Religious Right	968	(1)
The New Right's Agenda	968	(1)
Conclusion	969	(1)
Suggested Readings	970	(2)
Power and Politics since 1974	972
The Caretaker Presidency of Gerald Ford (1974--1977)	974	(2)
Chronology	974	(1)
Trying to Whip Stagflation	975	(1)
Foreign Policy	975	(1)
The Election of 1976	975	(1)
Jimmy Carter's One-term Presidency (1977--1981)	976	(5)
Welfare and Energy Initiatives	976	(1)
A Faltering Economy	977	(1)
Negotiating Foreign Disputes	978	(1)
Campaigning for Human Rights Abroad	978	(1)
Confronting Problems in Iran and Afghanistan	979	(1)
The Election of 1980	979	(1)
Musical Link to the Past	980	(1)
Hip-hop Leaps In
Ronald Reagan's ``New Morning in America'' (1981--1989)	981	(5)
Pursuing Supply-Side Economics	981	(1)
Broadening the New Right Agenda	982	(1)
Routing the Democrats, 1984	983	(1)
Reagan's Second Term	984	(1)
History Through Film	984	(2)
The First Movie-Star President
Renewing the Cold War	986	(3)
The Defense Buildup	986	(1)
Deploying Military Power	987	(1)
The Iran-Contra Controversy	988	(1)
The Beginning of the End of the Cold War	988	(1)
The First Bush Presidency (1989--1993)	989	(5)
The Election of 1988	989	(1)
The End of the Cold War	990	(2)
The Persian Gulf War	992	(1)
The Election of 1992	993	(1)
The Presidency of Bill Clinton (1993--2001)	994	(8)
Clinton's First Two Years	994	(1)
A Republican Congress, a Democratic White House	995	(2)
Victory and Impeachment	997	(1)
Environmental Policy	998	(2)
Post--Cold War Foreign Policy	1000	(1)
Americans Abroad	1001	(1)
Madeleine Albright: A Woman on the World Stage
Globalization	1002	(1)
The Presidency of George W. Bush (2001-- )	1002	(4)
The Long Election	1002	(1)
A Conservative Domestic Agenda	1003	(1)
Foreign Policy Changes Course	1004	(2)
Conclusion	1006	(1)
Suggested Readings	1007
Appendix	1	(1)
Credits	1	(1)
Index	1