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This comprehensive, widely-used anthology offers a dynamic assessment of the major issues in post-World War II American history. In this second edition, the editors include contemporary articles on the Cold War and the 1960s and present new discussions of the counterculture, the New Right, conservatism under the Reagan administration, the new poverty, and the politics of the 1950s and 1960s.

Preface
The Cold War Abroad and At Home
Introduction
Truman's Cold War Policies
The Need to Contain Soviet Expansion
Are We Only Paying Lip Service to Peace?
American Firmness vs. Soviet Aggression
The Truman DoctrineNSC-68: A Report to the National Security Council HUAC Investigates Hollywood
The Internal Communist MenaceEllen Schrecker: The Age of "McCarthyism"
The Politics of the Affluent Society
Introduction
The Ideology of the Liberal Consensus
A Revisionist View of the Ike Age
Reevaluating JFK's Presidency
Losing Ground: Discredited Liberalism
Civil Rights
Introduction
So Much History, So Much Future Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Second Coming of America
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Message to the Grass Roots
From Protest to Politics
Feminism
Introduction
Women's Consciousness and the Southern Black Movement
Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory
Women Against Feminism
Roe v. Wade, 1973, Justice
The Emergence of Gay Liberation
Vietnam and the Years of Polarization
Introduction
Vietnam in Historical Perspective
Causes of the War
One Morning in the WarStudents for a Democratic Society: The Port Huron Statement
"Dump Johnson"
Bill Clinton Draft Letter
You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind
Up Against the Ivy Wall
Rise and Fall of a Counterculture
The Forgotten American
Politics of the 1970s and 1980s
Introduction
Watergate
America's Crisis of Confidence
"The Second American Revolution"
Reagan's America: A Capital Offense
Where do we go from here?
Introduction
As the World Turns
The Urban Underclass in Advanced Industrial Society
Article on Ward Connerly
Great X-pectations
Suggestions for Further Reading
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A History of Our Time Readings on Postwar America

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