Salim Yaqub

Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord (eBook, ePUB)

The United States since 1945

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In brisk and engaging prose, this comprehensive introductory textbook traverses the broad sweep of US history since 1945. Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord explores how Americans from all walks of life - political leaders, businesspeople, public intellectuals, workers, students, activists, migrants, and others - struggled to define the nation's political, economic, geopolitical, demographic, and social character. It chronicles the nation's ceaseless ferment, from the rocky conversion to peacetime in the early aftermath of World War II; to the frightening emergence of the Cold War and repeated US military adventures abroad; to the struggles of African Americans and other minorities to claim a share of the American Dream; to the striking transformations in social attitudes catalyzed by the women's movement and struggles for gay and lesbian liberation; to the dynamic force of political, economic, and social conservatism. Carrying the story to the spring of 2022, Winds of Hope also shows how dizzying technological changes at times threatened to upend the nation's civic and political life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108751100
• Artikelnr.: 70910195

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.