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Edition Number4
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LCCN94-038349
Reviews"A balanced and judicious source book including some important and largelyoverlooked readings."--Michael F. Doyle, Ocean County College, "A splendid reader--it illuminates all the main issues!"--Mark Gildershus, Colorado State University, "An excellent anthology, perhaps the very best of its kind."--Susan Walens, Western Connecticut State University, "An excellent collection of readings! I am using them to supplement the text, and, specifically, to provide the basis for weekly discussions of the basic issues in the course. So far they have worked extremely well to stimulate and produce informed discussion."--Manfred Jonas, UnionCollege, "This book is excellent and the documents are well chosen. My studentsliked the reader."--S. Ducksworth, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, "Excellent collection of essays on contemporary America. Very appropriate for Freshman/Sophomore U.S. History courses."--Stephen S. Katz, Community College of Philadelphia, "An excellent collection of readings! I am using them to supplement thetext, and, specifically, to provide the basis for weekly discussions of thebasic issues in the course. So far they have worked extremely well to stimulateand produce informed discussion."--Manfred Jonas, Union College, "The best reader on post-World War II U.S. history. I've used it for 5 years and plan to continue."--Walter A. Jackson, North Carolina State University, "The best reader on post-World War II U.S. history. I've used it for 5years and plan to continue."--Walter A. Jackson, North Carolina StateUniversity, "Superb selections providing a wide range of opinions that reflects ourwide range of experience since 1945. Awesome!"--T.M. Kluz, AuburnUniversity, "An excellent anthology, perhaps the very best of its kind."--SusanWalens, Western Connecticut State University, "A balanced and judicious source book including some important and largely overlooked readings."--Michael F. Doyle, Ocean County College, "This book is excellent and the documents are well chosen. My students liked the reader."--S. Ducksworth, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, "Superb selections providing a wide range of opinions that reflects our wide range of experience since 1945. Awesome!"--T.M. Kluz, Auburn University, "Excellent collection of essays on contemporary America. Very appropriatefor Freshman/Sophomore U.S. History courses."--Stephen S. Katz, CommunityCollege of Philadelphia
Dewey Edition20
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Dewey Decimal973.92
Table Of ContentPart I: The Cold War Abroad and at Home: The Atomic Bomb and the Cold WarRobert Messer, New Evidence on Truman's decisionGar Alperovitz, More on Atomic DiplomacyHenry Wallace, Áre We Only Paying Lip Service to PeaceClark Clifford, American Firmness vs. Soviet Aggression* Harry Truman, The Truman Doctrine* NSC-68, A Report to the National Security Council* Melvin Leffler, American Cold War Policies Reexamined* Joseph McCarthy, The Internal Communist MenaceMargaret Chase Smith, Republican Declaration of ConscienceLillian Hellman, Scoundrel Time* Richard Fried, Night in RedPart II: The Politics of the Affluent SocietyGodfrey Hodgson, The Ideology of the Liberal ConsensusDwight D. Eisenhower, The Military-Industrial ComplexJohn F. Kennedy, The New Frontier in SpaceLyndon B. Johnson, The Great Society* Charles Murray, The Poverty of the Great SocietyPart III: The African American StruggleHarvard Sitkoff, The Preconditions for Racial ChangeVincent Harding, So Much History, So Much Future: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Second Comming of AmericaMartin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail* Malcolm X, Message to the Grass RootsBayard Rustin, From Protest to Politics, or Kerner Comm ReportPart IV: The Challenge to SexismWilliam H. Chafe, Social Change and the American Women, 1940-1970Sara Evans Women's Consciousness and the Southern Black Movementbell hooks, Black Women: Shaping Feminist TheoryRebecca Klatch, Women against Feminism* Roe vs. Wade, The Abortion Issue* Estelle Freedman and John D'Emilio, The Gay Rights MovementPart V: War in VietnamJohn Garry Clifford, Vietnam in Historical PerspectiveLyndon B. Johnson, Why we are in VietnamLeslie Gelb, Causes of The WarRichard Hammer, One Morning in the War* Richard Nixon, The Cambodian IncursionJohn Kerry, Vietnam Veterans Against the WarPart VI: Years of PolarizationKarin Ashley, et. al., You Don't Need A Weatherman to Know which Way the Wind BlowsJerry Avorn, et al., Up Against the Ivy WallAllen Matusow, Rise and Fall of CounterculturePeter Schrag, The Forgotten AmericanPart VII: Politics of the 1970's and the 1980'sJohnathan Schell, WatergateJimmy Carter, America's Crisis of ConfidenceRonald Regan, "The Second American Revolution"* Kevin Phillips, Regan's America: A Capitol OffensePart VIII: Towards a New CenturyRobert B. Reich, As the World TurnsWilliam Julius Wilson, The Urban Underclass in Advanced Industrial Society* Albert Gore, The Global Environmental Crisis* William Clinton, Speech* Daniel Deudney and John Ikenberry, After the Long War* Jeff Schmalz, Whatever Happened to AIDS?Suggestions for Further Reading
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisThis comprehensive, widely-read anthology presents cogent and provocative articles from differing political perspectives on major issues in post-World War II America. The fourth edition is considerably expanded to include new selections on the AIDS epidemic, gay rights, the women's movement, and the Clinton-Gore administration. In addition to articles by leading historians the editors have chosen first-person accounts by participants in each of the issues under discussion, from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from the Birmingham Jail" to Al Gore's speech on environmentalism. With lively introductions to each section providing a context for the articles, this book helps students make sense of the tumultuous world of our time.
LC Classification NumberE742.H57 1995