Modern American Lives: Individuals and Issues in American History Since 1945: Individuals and Issues in American History Since 1945

by Browne,Blaine T

• ISBN13: 9780765622235
• ISBN10: 0765622238
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-12-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Modern American Lives reflects the authors' conviction that the history of contemporary America can be more thoroughly comprehended--and students more thoroughly engaged--through an examination of the lives of individuals, prominent and otherwise, who decisively shaped the course of events in the decades following World War II. The book seeks not only to acquaint students with the lives of a variety of influential Americans, both famous and lesser-known, but also to provide a comprehensive examination, through those lives, of the critical issues that determined the course of modern American history. The individuals presented in these narrative biographies significantly, and sometimes decisively, impacted contemporary American life in a wide range of areas, including national politics, foreign policy, social and political activism, popular and literary culture, sports, and business. The combined biographical/thematic approach is designed to serve two purposes: to present more substantive biographical information, and to offer a fuller examination of key events and issues. The book is an ideal supplement for undergraduate courses on The United States Since 1945, as well as for courses on Modern America and 20th Century America.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

The Years of Consensus, 1945-1960

Defining the Cold War

Architect of Containment

Champion of the Common Man and Cooperation

Fighting the Cold War at Home

Dissenter in an Age of Conformity

Fighter Against the Red Menace

The Transformation of Popular Culture

Symbol of the New Sexuality

Rock and Roll Rebel

Outsiders in a Conformist Society

Racial Torchbearer in the National Pastime

Avatar of the Beats

Defending Democracy in the Nuclear Age

Apostle of Armageddon

Prophet of the New Left

From Confidence to Crisis, 1960-1980

Civil Rights and Social Justice

Mississippi Freedom Fighter

Guardian of The United Farm Workers Union

Challenges to the Liberal Consensus

New Left Activist

Hero of the New Right

1968: The Hope and the Fear

Herald of the New Politics

Practitioner of the Politics of Rage

Implosions: The Collapse of the Counterculture and the New Left

Troubador of Psychedelia

Reformer, Radical, Revolutionary

The Women's Movement: Revolution and Reaction

Feminist Icon

Counterrevolutionnary on the Right

The Search for New Directions, 1980-Present

The Roaring Eighties: Piety and Profit

Standard-Bearer of the Christian Right

Prophet of Techno-Times

After the Revolution: New Horizons for Black Americans

Golf's Great Black Hope

Black Conservative in Judicial Robes

America and the New World Order

Democratic Imperialist

Radical Gadfly

About the Authors

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