This book covers the broad sweep of post-1945 US history, addressing politics, economics, foreign relations, political activism, demographic transformation, and dizzying technological change. Extending to the spring of 2022, it shows how the turmoil, striving, triumphs, and setbacks of the last seventy-seven years shaped today's world.
This book covers the broad sweep of post-1945 US history, addressing politics, economics, foreign relations, political activism, demographic transformation, and dizzying technological change. Extending to the spring of 2022, it shows how the turmoil, striving, triumphs, and setbacks of the last seventy-seven years shaped today's world.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Salim Yaqub is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he directs the Center for Cold War Studies and International History. He is the author of two previous books, Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East (2004) and Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and US-Middle East Relations in the 1970s (2016).
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Introduction 1. Wake up Willie: from war to postwar, 1945-1948 2. We may not now relax our guard: hot war abroad and cold war at home, 1949-1954 3. It's like turning over a rock: America in the fifties 4. Listen, Yankee: the transformation of America's Cold War, 1956-1963 5. Is this America?: civil rights and the liberal movement, 1960-1965 6. Berkeley Cong: fighting abroad and unraveling at home, 1963-1968 7. Expletive deleted: the presidency of Richard Nixon, 1969-1974 8. Great blinding lightbulb: women's rights, gay and lesbian rights, and new understandings of gender, sexuality, and family, 1960-1975 9. Soylent Green is people: America in the seventies 10. The picture always overrides: America in the Reagan years, 1981-1989 11. To look over the horizon: from New Cold War to New World Order, 1981-1991 12. Triangulation: the nineties and Bill Clinton 13. Freedom fries: George W. Bush, 9/11, and the Iraq war, 2001-2008 14. Yes we can't: American politics, 2009-2015 15. Crossfire hurricane: the Trump years, 2015-2021 Epilogue Index.
Preface Introduction 1. Wake up Willie: from war to postwar, 1945-1948 2. We may not now relax our guard: hot war abroad and cold war at home, 1949-1954 3. It's like turning over a rock: America in the fifties 4. Listen, Yankee: the transformation of America's Cold War, 1956-1963 5. Is this America?: civil rights and the liberal movement, 1960-1965 6. Berkeley Cong: fighting abroad and unraveling at home, 1963-1968 7. Expletive deleted: the presidency of Richard Nixon, 1969-1974 8. Great blinding lightbulb: women's rights, gay and lesbian rights, and new understandings of gender, sexuality, and family, 1960-1975 9. Soylent Green is people: America in the seventies 10. The picture always overrides: America in the Reagan years, 1981-1989 11. To look over the horizon: from New Cold War to New World Order, 1981-1991 12. Triangulation: the nineties and Bill Clinton 13. Freedom fries: George W. Bush, 9/11, and the Iraq war, 2001-2008 14. Yes we can't: American politics, 2009-2015 15. Crossfire hurricane: the Trump years, 2015-2021 Epilogue Index.
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