Postwar America

by Unger, Irwin; Unger, Debi

• ISBN13: 9780312032173
• ISBN10: 031203217X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-04-01
• Publisher: St Martins Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Prologue: From 1900 to 1945	1	(11)
Postwar and Cold War America	12	(40)
War's Aftermath	13	(7)
Truman and the Fair Deal	20	(4)
The Cold War Erupts	24	(5)
Containment in Europe	29	(6)
The Korean War	35	(4)
Anticommunism at Home	39	(8)
McCarthyism	42	(5)
The 1952 election	47	(2)
The Cold War's distortions	49	(3)
For Further Reading	50	(2)
Culture and Public Affairs during the Eisenhower Years	52	(37)
Ideas and Values	53	(2)
The Arts	55	(5)
The Commercial Media	60	(4)
The Eisenhower Administration	64	(5)
The Civil Rights Movement	69	(7)
The Supreme Court Rules on Public School Segregation	72	(4)
The Cold War Continues	76	(6)
Ike's Farewell and the 1960 Election	82	(5)
Transition and balance sheet	87	(2)
For Further Reading	88	(1)
The Sixties	89	(41)
Kennedy's New Frontier	90	(12)
Johnson Takes Over	102	(3)
The Great Society at High Noon	105	(7)
The Rise and Fall of the New Left	112	(3)
The Counterculture	115	(4)
The New Feminism	119	(4)
The Now Statement of Purpose	120	(3)
The Great Society Ends	123	(2)
The 1968 Election	125	(3)
The Sixties end	128	(2)
For Further Reading	128	(2)
The Vietnam War	130	(23)
The Vietnam Morass	131	(7)
Johnson and Vietnam	138	(10)
A Marine Reminisces about Vietnam	143	(5)
Nixon and Vietnam	148	(2)
Peace at Last	150	(1)
The legacy	151	(2)
For Further Reading	152	(1)
The Great Malaise	153	(40)
The Nixon Administration	154	(5)
Nixonomics	159	(2)
Nixon and Foreign Policy	161	(4)
The 1972 Election and Watergate	165	(11)
The Watergate Cover-Up	172	(4)
The Ford Presidency	176	(5)
Jimmy Carter; The Early Months	181	(5)
Carter's Foreign Policy	186	(3)
The 1980 Election	189	(1)
From Nixon to Reagan	190	(3)
For Further Reading	191	(2)
The Reagan Revolution	193	(41)
The ``New Right''	194	(6)
Ronald Reagan Lays Out His Agenda	198	(2)
Reaganomics	200	(7)
Minorities and Women	207	(4)
Reagan and the Environment	211	(1)
Reagan's Foreign Policy	211	(4)
Reagan's Reelection and Second Term	215	(2)
The Iran-Contra Affair	217	(3)
Reagan and Soviet-American Relations	220	(4)
Continuing Economic Concerns	224	(4)
End-of-Term Issues	228	(1)
The 1988 Presidential Election	229	(2)
The end of the Reagan Era	231	(3)
For Further Reading	232	(2)
Index	234