The making of modern America
Subtitle: the nation from 1945 to the present
By: Gary A. Donaldson.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780742548190; 9780742548206
Subjects: United States -- History -- 1945-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Postwar adjustments; title: The early Cold War; title: Affluence and anxiety : America in the 1950s; title: The Eisenhower presidency; title: Kennedy at home and abroad; title: "We shall continue"; title: The nation in the sixties; title: Out of the 1960s and into the 1970s : the agony of change; title: America in the seventies, the post-Watergate years; title: The Reagan years; title: The kinder-gentler conservatism of George H.W. Bush; title: Bill Clinton's America; title: Taking stock : America at the new millennium; title: The life and times of George W. Bush.