A Companion to Post-1945 America (Blackwell Companions to American History)

Contents......Page 5
Illustrations......Page 8
About the Contributors......Page 9
Introduction......Page 13
PART I: Society and Culture......Page 19
1 Family and Demography in Postwar America: A Hazard of New Fortunes?......Page 21
2 The Power of Place: Race, Political Economy, and Identity in the Postwar Metropolis......Page 38
3 American Religion Since 1945......Page 62
4 Time Out: Leisure and Tourism......Page 82
5 Mass Media: From 1945 to the Present......Page 96
6 What the Traffic Bares: Popular Music “Back in the USA”......Page 114
7 The Visual Arts in Post-1945 America......Page 131
8 American Intellectual History and Social Thought Since 1945......Page 152
PART II: People and Movements......Page 171
9 American Political Culture Since 1945......Page 173
10 Hyphen Nation: Ethnicity in American Intellectual and Political Life......Page 193
11 Labor During the American Century: Work, Workers, and Unions Since 1945......Page 210
12 The Historiography of the Struggle for Black Equality Since 1945......Page 229
13 Postwar Women’s History: The “Second Wave” or the End of the Family Wage?......Page 253
14 Sexuality and the Movements for Sexual Liberation......Page 278
15 A Movement of Movements: The Definition and Periodization of the New Left......Page 295
16 The Triumph of Conservatives in a Liberal Age......Page 321
17 Modern Environmentalism......Page 346
PART III: Politics and Foreign Policy......Page 361
18 Beyond the Presidential Synthesis: Reordering Political Time......Page 363
19 McCarthyism and the Red Scare......Page 389
20 The Politics of “The Least Dangerous Branch”: The Court, the Constitution, and Constitutional Politics Since 1945......Page 403
21 The Cold War in Europe......Page 424
22 Off the Beach: The United States, Latin America, and the Cold War......Page 444
23 The United States and East Asia in the Postwar Era......Page 464
24 Washington Quagmire: US Presidents and the Vietnam Wars – A Pattern of Intervention......Page 482
25 The End of the Cold War......Page 497
26 From the “Atomic Age” to the “Anti-Nuclear Age”: Nuclear Energy in Politics, Diplomacy, and Culture......Page 519
PART IV: Essential Reading......Page 537
27 J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (1985)......Page 539
28 Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (1995)......Page 543
29 Samuel Lubell, The Future of American Politics (1952, 1956, 1965)......Page 547
30 Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were (1992)......Page 552
31 Alphonso Pinkney, The Myth of Black Progress (1984)......Page 555
32 Garry Wills, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (1970)......Page 558
33 Victor Navasky, Naming Names (1980)......Page 563
34 Edward Said, Orientalism (1978)......Page 568
Index......Page 575