Quest for identity
Subtitle: America since 1945
By: Randall Bennett Woods.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 593
Subjects: National characteristics, American.; United States -- History -- 1945-; United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The republic in transition : demobilization and reconversion; title: The origins of the Cold War; title: Staying the course : Dwight D. Eisenhower and the politics of moderation; title: Containing Communism and managing the military-industrial complex : the Eisenhower administration and the Cold War; title: Capitalism and conformity : American society, 1945-1960; title: Liberalism reborn : John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and the politics of activism; title: The wages of globalism : foreign affairs during the Kennedy-Johnson era; title: The dividing of America : Vietnam, Black power, the counterculture, and the election of 1968; title: Realpolitik or imperialism? : Nixon, Kissinger, and American foreign policy; title: The limits of expediency : Richard M. Nixon and the American presidency; title: From confidence to anxiety : American society, 1960-1980; title: Governing in a malaise : the presidencies of Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter; title: The culture of narcissism : the Reagan era; title: In search of balance : America into the twenty-first century.