In this essential introduction to postwar America, central currents in art, film, theatre, intellectual history and media are explored alongside political and social change. The new edition has been revised and updated in the light of new scholarship and the last two chapters now cover recent events, including the rise of Obama.
In this essential introduction to postwar America, central currents in art, film, theatre, intellectual history and media are explored alongside political and social change. The new edition has been revised and updated in the light of new scholarship and the last two chapters now cover recent events, including the rise of Obama.
List of Illustrations and Timelines.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- PART I: THE WORLD WAR AND AMERICAN POWER.- American Politics from Roosevelt to Truman.- 1940s: The Cultural Legacy of World War Two.- PART II: THE COLD WAR AND AMERICAN CULTURE.- American Politics from Truman to Eisenhower.- Alienation and Affluence in the 1950s.- PART III: WAR IN VIETNAM AND REVOLUTION IN THE STREETS.- Kennedy, Johnson and the Crisis of American Liberalism.- The Imaginative Crisis of the 1960s.- PART IV: THE AMBIGUOUS LEGACY OF THE SIXTIES.- American Politics from Nixon to Carter.- The Clash of Two Countercultures.- PART V: FROM THE COLD WAR TO GLOBALIZATION.- American Politics from Reagan to Clinton.- From the Global Village to Bowling Alone.- PART VI: AMERICA AFTER SEPTEMBER 11, 2001.- George W. Bush and the Trials of the American Conservatism.- Hard Facts and Millennial Fictions.- Index.
List of Illustrations and Timelines.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- PART I: THE WORLD WAR AND AMERICAN POWER.- American Politics from Roosevelt to Truman.- 1940s: The Cultural Legacy of World War Two.- PART II: THE COLD WAR AND AMERICAN CULTURE.- American Politics from Truman to Eisenhower.- Alienation and Affluence in the 1950s.- PART III: WAR IN VIETNAM AND REVOLUTION IN THE STREETS.- Kennedy, Johnson and the Crisis of American Liberalism.- The Imaginative Crisis of the 1960s.- PART IV: THE AMBIGUOUS LEGACY OF THE SIXTIES.- American Politics from Nixon to Carter.- The Clash of Two Countercultures.- PART V: FROM THE COLD WAR TO GLOBALIZATION.- American Politics from Reagan to Clinton.- From the Global Village to Bowling Alone.- PART VI: AMERICA AFTER SEPTEMBER 11, 2001.- George W. Bush and the Trials of the American Conservatism.- Hard Facts and Millennial Fictions.- Index.
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