Grand expectations : the United States, 1945-1974 / James T. Patterson
1996, First Edition. New York : Oxford University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Spine of wrapper sun-toned. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #465758
Physical description; xviii, 829 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Veterans, ethnics, blacks, women -- Unions, liberals, and the state: stalemate -- Booms -- Grand expectations about the world -- Hardening of the Cold War, 1945-1948 -- Domestic politics: Truman's first term -- Red scares abroad and at home -- Korea -- Ike -- World affairs, 1953-1956 -- The biggest boom yet -- Mass consumer culture -- Race -- A center holds, more or less, 1957-1960 -- The polarized sixties: an overview -- The new frontier at home -- JFK and the world -- Lyndon Johnson and American liberalism -- A great society and the rise of rights-consciousness -- Escalation in Vietnam -- Rights, polarization, and backlash, 1966-1967 -- The most turbulent year: 1968 -- Rancor and Richard Nixon -- Nixon, Vietnam, and the world, 1969-1974 -- End of an era? Expectations amid Watergate and recession. Subjects; Since 1945. Since 1900. HISTORY. United States History Post-war period, 1945-. Social change United States History 20th century. United States History 1945-. United States Civil rights 1945-. Economic history. Politics and government. Social change.
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