A Progressive History of American Democracy Since 1945: American Dreams, Hard Realities

ISBN-13: 9780367749767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 352 str.

Chris J. Magoc

Opis

A Progressive History of American Democracy Since 1945: American Dreams, Hard Realities offers a social, political, and cultural history of the United States since World War II.

Spis treści

1. A "People’s War" and the Dawn an "American Century"  2. Containing Communism, Advancing "the American System"  3. Affluence and Angst: The Politics and Culture of Cold War America  4. Through the Looking Glass: Discontent and Rebellion in the Fifties  5. Let Us Begin: The Promise of the Early 1960s  6. Mississippi to Saigon: The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson and the Turning of the Sixties  7. "People of This Generation:" The New Left and the Counter-culture  8. 1968: The Rupture  9. Richard Nixon and the Resilience of American Democracy  10. Confronting Limits, Turning Right  11. The Reagan Revolution  12. The End of Nothing: History Lurches On   13. America Under Attack

O autorze

Chris J. Magoc is Professor of History at Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.