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Recent America : the United States since 1945 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grantham, Dewey W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Arlington Heights, Ill. : H. Davidson, [1987]
Subjects:
United States > History > 1945-
United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1989.
Table of Contents:
  • The transition from war to peace
  • The cold war: Confrontation and containment
  • Harry Truman and the politics of stalemate
  • The Korean War and the politics of loyalty
  • Eisenhower and the politics of moderation
  • Strategies of containment during the Eisenhower years
  • The triumph of American capitalism
  • The emergence of a new social order
  • The culture of affluence and anxiety
  • John F. Kennedy and the American mission abroad
  • New frontiers and the politics of reform
  • Toward the great society
  • Johnsonian foreign policy and the War in Vietnam
  • The Nixon years begin
  • Crisis of Confidence: America in the 1970s
  • Post-Watergate politics and the Carter administration
  • Ronald Reagan and the revival of American conservatism.