Quest for identity : America since 1945 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woods, Randall Bennett, 1944-
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • The republic in transition : demobilization and reconversion
  • The origins of the Cold War
  • Staying the course : Dwight D. Eisenhower and the politics of moderation
  • Containing Communism and managing the military-industrial complex : the Eisenhower administration and the Cold War
  • Capitalism and conformity : American society, 1945-1960
  • Liberalism reborn : John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and the politics of activism
  • The wages of globalism : foreign affairs during the Kennedy-Johnson era
  • The dividing of America : Vietnam, Black power, the counterculture, and the election of 1968
  • Realpolitik or imperialism? : Nixon, Kissinger, and American foreign policy
  • The limits of expediency : Richard M. Nixon and the American presidency
  • From confidence to anxiety : American society, 1960-1980
  • Governing in a malaise : the presidencies of Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter
  • The culture of narcissism : the Reagan era
  • In search of balance : America into the twenty-first century.