The Rise and Fall of the American Century The United States from 1890-2009
ISBN: 9780195382624 | 0195382625
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/9/2009
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From William H. Chafe, the best-selling author of The Unfinished Journey, comes a new text that offers in-depth and enlightening coverage of the history of the United States in the twentieth century. The Rise and Fall of the American Century: The United States from 1890-2010 describes the rise--and potential fall--of the U.S., a nation more powerful, more wealthy, and more dominant than any in human history. It also acknowledges the persistent challenges the U.S. has faced and continues to face--inequalities of race, gender, and income that con... MORE
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction: The 1890s, a Preview of the Next Century | p. 1 |
| The Dawn of Progressivism | p. 28 |
| America and the World | p. 48 |
| The Roaring (?) Twenties | p. 66 |
| FDR and the New Deal | p. 88 |
| World War II: 1941-1945 | p. 114 |
| The Cold War and the Politics of Anti-Communism: 1945-1952 | p. 133 |
| Ike and the Affluent Society: An Age of Contra... MORE | p. 156 |
| From Camelot to Fragmentation: The 1960s | p. 182 |
| Polarization, Paranoia, and a New Conservatism: America in the 1970s | p. 215 |
| Morning in America: Ronald Reagan | p. 239 |
| The End of One War, the Start of Another: Politics, Culture, and the Specter of Terrorism in the 1990s | p. 261 |
| The End of the American Century? The First Decade of the New Millennium | p. 287 |
| Epilogue | p. 309 |
| Index | p. 311 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
William H. Chafe is Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History at Duke University. He is the author of eight other books, including The Unfinished Journey, Sixth Edition (OUP, 2006), Private Lives/Public Consequences: Personality and Politics in Modern America (2005), Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism (1998), and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Freedom (1981), and the coeditor of A History of Our Time, Seventh Edition (OUP, 2007).
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