These United States : a nation in the making. 1945 to the present

Cover (These United States: A Nation in the Making: 1945 to the Present)
Front Mater
	Half Title
	Title
	Copyright
	Dedication
	About the Authors
	Contents
	Maps and figures
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 - A Rising Superpower, 1944–1954
	Truman and the Postwar World Order
	The Origins of the Cold War
	Reconversion: The Home Front
	Cold War, First Moves
	The Election of 1948
	Anti-Communism at Home
	An Escalating Cold War
Chapter 2 - Postwar Prosperity and Its Discontents, 1946–1960
	Postwar Prosperity
	The Baby Boom
	A Nation of Homeowners
	Life in the Consumers’ Republic
	Eisenhower’s Middle Ground
	God’s Country
	Teens, Sex, Anxiety
	The Black Freedom Struggle
	The Covert Cold War
	Security and Insecurity
Chapter 3 - A Season of Change: Liberals and the Limits of Reform, 1960–1966
	Kennedy and the Liberal Revival
	Civil Rights
	Cold War Crises
	“Where’s the PEN, Mr. President?”
	President Johnson
	The New Right
	The Great Society
	Expanding the Boundaries of Citizenship: Voting Rights and Immigration
	Jobs and Freedom
	Black Power, White Backlash
Chapter 4 - May Day: Vietnam and the Crisis of the 1960s
	The Origins of the Vietnam War
	Lyndon Johnson’s War
	The Antiwar Movement
	A Working-Class War
	War at Home: The Urban Rebellions
	The Collapse in Public Support for the War
	Tet and Bloody 1968
	The Spirit of Rebellion
Chapter 5 - Which Side Are You On? The Battle for Middle America, 1968–1974
	The Election of 1968: Democratic Fracture
	Nixon and the “Silent Majority”
	Nixon in Power
	Rebellion and Repression
	Undermining Integration
	The Personal Is Political
	The Election of 1972 and Watergate
Chapter 6 - A Season of Darkness: The Troubled 1970s
	The War’s End
	New Directions in the Cold War
	Economic Shifts
	The Oil Shock
	Recession and Disillusionment
	The Environmental Crisis
	The Urban Crisis
	Political Reform
	The Carter Presidency
	The Turn to the Right
Chapter 7 - The New Gilded Age, 1980–2000
	The Reagan Revolution?
	The Social Safety Net
	Religious Revivals
	“Peace Through Strength”
	America in the World
	G. H. W. Bush and the Currents of Republicanism
	From Cold War to Gulf War
	The Low-Wage Economy
	Immigration
	Politics and the Slumping Economy
	Clinton and Political Triangulation
	The Contract with America and Welfare Reform
	The Boom and Income Inequality
	Impeachment
	Foreign Affairs
	At Century’s End
Chapter 8 - United We Stand, Divided We Fall, Since 2000
	The Election of 2000
	Bush in Office
	9/11
	The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
	The Limits of Conservatism
	The Election of 2008
	Obama and the World
	Obama and the Limits of “Change”
	The Burden of History
Notes
Glossary
Appendix
Credits
Index