The rise and fall of the American century
Subtitle: United States from 1890-2010
By: William H. Chafe.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780195382624; 9780195383447
Subjects: Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century; United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century; United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The 1890s, a preview of the next century; title: The dawn of progressivism; title: America and the world; title: The roaring twenties; title: FDR and the New Deal; title: World War II : 1941-1945; title: The Cold War and the politics of anti-communism : 1945-1952; title: Ike and the affluent society : an age of contradictions; title: From Camelot to fragmentation : the 1960s; title: Polarization, paranoia, and a new conservatism : America in the 1970s; title: Morning in America : Ronald Reagan; title: The end of one war, the start of another : politics, culture, and specter of terrorism in the 1990s; title: The end of the American century? The first decade of the new millennium.