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1 online resource (390 p.) |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude: The Imperial Logic of the American Dream -- Part I The Postwar Decades -- Chapter 1 Victory and Anxiety: World War and Cold War, 1945-1962 -- Colony to Colonizer: American Rise to Globalism -- Wages of War: Triumph over Germany and Japan -- First Frost: Dawn of the Cold War -- Seeing Red: The Cold War at Home -- Playing with Dominoes: Cold War Hot Spots -- Cold War Showdown: Cuba -- culture watch: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955/1956) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes |
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Chapter 2 Conformity and Rebellion: American Culture and Politics, 1945-1963 -- Best Worst Time: Early Postwar Years -- Boom! The Postwar Economy Explodes -- Rising Suburbs: Life on the Crabgrass Frontier -- Restless in the Promised Land: Suburbia's Critics -- Free Movement: Early Civil Rights Struggles -- Big Bangs: 1950s Youth Culture -- culture watch: A Raisin in the Sun (1959) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Part II The Long 1960s -- Chapter 3 Confidence and Agitation: The American Empire at High Tide, 1960-1965 -- Dishing: The Kitchen Debate as Domestic Squabble |
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American Prince: JFK -- Grand Expectations: The Birth of "the Sixties" -- Overcoming: The Civil Rights Movement Crests -- Voices: Popular Culture of the Early 1960s -- Countercurrents: Civil Rights Skeptics -- Lone Star Rising: The LBJ Moment -- Flanking Maneuver: Johnson in Vietnam -- Fissures: Democratic Fault Lines -- culture watch: "The Times They Are A-Changin'" (1964) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Fulfillment and Frustration: An Empire in Conflict, 1965-1974 -- Over the Moon: Winning the Space Race -- Imperial Quagmire: The Vietnam Wars |
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Down from the Mountaintop: The Civil Rights Movement -- Turning Point: 1968 -- Right Rising: The Return of Richard Nixon -- Women's Work: The Feminist Movement -- Rainbows: Rights Revolutions -- Grim Peace: Endgame in Vietnam -- Crooked Justice: The Triumph and Fall of Nixon -- culture watch: Easy Rider (1969) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Experimentation and Exhaustion: Political Culture of the Sixties, 1965-1975 -- The Great Divide: Establishment and Counterculture -- (de)Construction Sites: The Rise of Postmodernism -- System Failure: The Reorganization of Hollywood |
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Medium Dominant: Television -- Fit Print: Publishing -- Kingdom of Rebels: The Reign of Rock -- culture watch: "Chuckles the Clown Bites the Dust," The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1975) -- Suggested Further Reading -- Notes -- Interlude -- Chapter 6 Reassessment and Nostalgia: The American Empire in the Age of Limits, 1973-1980 -- 1973: Hinge of American History -- Apocalypse Now: The New Gloom -- Depressingly Decent: Ford and Carter -- Solitary Refinement: The Me Decade -- Body Politics: Gender and Its Discontents -- Rebellion and Revival: Pop Culture of the Late Seventies |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Right Signal: The Conservative Turn |
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Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781119027461 |
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1119027462 |
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