The development of modern America : The rise of Theodore Roosevelt ; The nineteenth-century background ; Republicans and Democrats: Hamilton and Jefferson ; Theodore Roosevelt in the White House ; The progressive moment ; Woodrow Wilson and reform ; The United States goes to war ; Normalcy in the jazz age ; Herbert Hoover and the American system -- The achievement of liberalism : The emergence of Franklin Roosevelt ; The Democrats win power ; FDR enters the White House ; The New Deal ; The expansion of the presidency ; Liberals and conservatives ; Harry Truman continues the struggle ; Eisenhower Republicanism ; John Kennedy wins the presidency ; Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society -- The attainment of world power : The background to foreign policy ; Roosevelt and isolationism ; Roosevelt as wartime president ; Truman and the commitment to internationalism ; Eisenhower assumes control ; Kennedy the Cold War warrior ; The Vietnam War ; Nixon, Kissinger and the 1970s ; Ronald Reagan and anti-communism ; George Bush and a new world order ; Bill Clinton and the New Isolationism -- The resurgence of conservatism : The conservative conscience ; The turning conservative tide ; The election of 1968 ; Richard Nixon in the White House ; The imperial presidency ; Presidential and party politics after Watergate ; Reagan, Bush and conservatism ; Clinton and the 1990s
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