Screen LibraryThe making of modern America : the nation from 1945 to present /
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| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 365 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-354) and index. |
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9781442209572 (cloth : alk. paper) : 1442209577 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781442209589 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1442209585 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781442209596 (electronic) 1442209593 (electronic) |
| Index Number: | E741 |
| CLC: | K712.54 |
| Call Number: | K712.54/D676/2nd.ed. |
| Contents: | Postwar adjustments -- The early Cold War -- Affluence and anxiety : America in the 1950s -- The Eisenhower presidency -- Kennedy at home and abroad -- "We shall continue" -- The nation in the 1960s -- Out of the 1960s and into the 1970s : the agony of change -- America in the 1970s : the post-Watergate years -- The Reagan years -- The kinder, gentler conservatism of George H.W. Bush -- Bill Clinton's America -- America after the new millennium -- The second Bush and Obama : from the War on Terrorism to the Audacity of Hope. |