Salim Yaqub

Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord

The United States Since 1945

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Produktbeschreibung

"In brisk, vivid prose, the book covers the broad sweep of post-1945 U.S. 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 77 years shaped today's world"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 188mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1247g
• ISBN-13: 9781108496728
• ISBN-10: 1108496725
• Artikelnr.: 64457446

Autorenporträt

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.