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A History of our time : readings on postwar America / edited by William H. Chafe, Harvard Sitkoff.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xiii, 453 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0195042042 (pbk.)
  • 9780195042047 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E742 .H57 1987
Online resources:
Contents:
The sources of the Cold War. The atomic bomb and the origins of the Cold War / Martin J. Sherwin -- Containment before Kennan / John Lewis Gaddis -- Are we only paying lip service to peace / Henry A. Wallace -- American firmness vs. Soviet aggression / Clark Clifford -- The Cold War at home. American politics and the origins of "McCarthyism" / Robert Griffith -- Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia / Joseph McCarthy -- Republican declaration of conscience / Margaret Chase Smith -- Scoundrel time / Lillian Hellman -- The politics of the affluent society. Eisenhower : holding the line / Alonzo L. Hamby -- The military-industrial complex / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- The ideology of the liberal consensus / Godfrey Hodgson -- The new frontier in space / John F. Kennedy -- Johnson : triumphant liberalism / Frederick F. Siegel -- The great society / Lyndon B. Johnson -- The Black struggle. The preconditions for racial change / Harvard Sitkoff -- So much history, so much future : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the second coming of America / Vincent Harding (Cont.) Letter from a Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Black power / Stokely Carmichael -- Black power after ten years / Clayborne Carson -- The challenge to sexism. Social change and the American woman, 1940-1970 / William H. Chafe -- Women's consciousness and the southern Black movement / Sara Evans -- Rights of passage / Robin Morgan -- Vietnam. Vietnam in historical perspective / John Garry Clifford -- Why we are in Vietnam / Lyndon B. Johnson -- Causes of the war / Leslie Gelb -- One morning in the war / Richard Hammer -- Vietnam Veterans Against the War / John Kerry -- Years of polarization. The Port Huron statement / Students for a Democratic Society -- You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows / Karin Ashley ... [et al.] -- Up against the ivy wall / Jerry Avorn, Robert Freedman, and members of the staff of the Columbia daily spectator -- Rise and fall of a counterculture / Allen J. Matusow -- Joe Kelly has reached his boiling point / Richard Rogin -- Politics of the 1970s and 1980s. Watergate / Jonathan Schnell (Cont.) America's crisis of confidence / Jimmy Carter -- The second American revolution / Ronald W. Reagan -- The "New Right" / Alan Crawford -- Where do we go from here? The issue before the court : Who gets ahead in America? / McGeorge Bundy -- The balkanization of America / Kevin Phillips -- The new American poverty / Michael Harrington -- Ways to turn back the nuclear tide / George Kennan.
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Bibliography: p. [447]-453.

The sources of the Cold War. The atomic bomb and the origins of the Cold War / Martin J. Sherwin -- Containment before Kennan / John Lewis Gaddis -- Are we only paying lip service to peace / Henry A. Wallace -- American firmness vs. Soviet aggression / Clark Clifford -- The Cold War at home. American politics and the origins of "McCarthyism" / Robert Griffith -- Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia / Joseph McCarthy -- Republican declaration of conscience / Margaret Chase Smith -- Scoundrel time / Lillian Hellman -- The politics of the affluent society. Eisenhower : holding the line / Alonzo L. Hamby -- The military-industrial complex / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- The ideology of the liberal consensus / Godfrey Hodgson -- The new frontier in space / John F. Kennedy -- Johnson : triumphant liberalism / Frederick F. Siegel -- The great society / Lyndon B. Johnson -- The Black struggle. The preconditions for racial change / Harvard Sitkoff -- So much history, so much future : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the second coming of America / Vincent Harding (Cont.) Letter from a Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Black power / Stokely Carmichael -- Black power after ten years / Clayborne Carson -- The challenge to sexism. Social change and the American woman, 1940-1970 / William H. Chafe -- Women's consciousness and the southern Black movement / Sara Evans -- Rights of passage / Robin Morgan -- Vietnam. Vietnam in historical perspective / John Garry Clifford -- Why we are in Vietnam / Lyndon B. Johnson -- Causes of the war / Leslie Gelb -- One morning in the war / Richard Hammer -- Vietnam Veterans Against the War / John Kerry -- Years of polarization. The Port Huron statement / Students for a Democratic Society -- You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows / Karin Ashley ... [et al.] -- Up against the ivy wall / Jerry Avorn, Robert Freedman, and members of the staff of the Columbia daily spectator -- Rise and fall of a counterculture / Allen J. Matusow -- Joe Kelly has reached his boiling point / Richard Rogin -- Politics of the 1970s and 1980s. Watergate / Jonathan Schnell (Cont.) America's crisis of confidence / Jimmy Carter -- The second American revolution / Ronald W. Reagan -- The "New Right" / Alan Crawford -- Where do we go from here? The issue before the court : Who gets ahead in America? / McGeorge Bundy -- The balkanization of America / Kevin Phillips -- The new American poverty / Michael Harrington -- Ways to turn back the nuclear tide / George Kennan.