Us vs. Them American Political and Cultural Conflict from WWII to Watergate

by Bresler, Robert J.

• ISBN13: 9780842026901
• ISBN10: 0842026908
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Culture. Politics. Thick, impenetrable tension. Post-1945 America. Professor Robert Bresler broaches these interwoven themes in Us vs. Them: American Political and Cultural Conflict from WWII to Watergate, a reader in the American Visions series. Of

Author Biography

Robert J. Bresler is professor of public policy at the School of Public Affairs, Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg

Table of Contents

Part I
The Rise and Fall of the American Consensus	3	(98)
Robert J. Bresler
Suggestions for Further Reading	101	(6)
Part II
State of the Union Address	107	(4)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Vital Center	111	(22)
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
A Republican Looks at His Party	133	(14)
Arthur Larson
A Call to Greatness	147	(8)
Adlai Stevenson
Mlle. Gulliver en Amerique	155	(6)
Mary McCarthy
The Know-Nothing Bohemians	161	(18)
Norman Podhoretz
The Motion Picture Production Code
Motion Picture Association of America	173	(6)
Farewell Address	179	(6)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Letter from Birmingham Jail	185	(16)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Commencement Address at American University	201	(24)
John F. Kennedy
The Sharon Statement
Young Americans for Freedom	211	(2)
The Port Huron Statement
Students for a Democratic Society	213	(12)
Commencement Address at the University of Michigan	225	(6)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Trapped in a System	231	(10)
Carl Oglesby
The New Mutants	241	(8)
Leslie Fiedler
Sex and Caste	249	(4)
Casey Hayden
Mary King
The Watergate Charges: Protecting the National Security	253
Richard M. Nixon