Modern America: A Documentary History of the Nation Since 1945

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Gary Donaldson
M.E. Sharpe, 2007 - 346 páginas
This primary source reader assembles key documents and firsthand accounts that are emblematic of American life from the end of World War II to the present. Designed to complement a core text for a typical post-1945 U.S. history course, the book offers conciseness and selectivity with balanced coverage of domestic and foreign, societal and cultural issues grouped together chronologically. The readings afford students compelling and sometimes startling insights into the nation's postwar adaptation to its new position of global power and responsibility, wealth, and rapid social change; on through years of energy and ambition, conflict and tragedy, to the post-Vietnam malaise and the rise of Ronald Reagan, the frenzied nineties, and the arrival of the new millennium. Each chapter includes an introduction that sets the documents in historical context, a biographical sketch of a significant person of the time, study questions, and suggestions for further reading.
 

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Origins of the Cold
3
Study Questions
22
3
29
3
53
Rosa Parks
62
John Foster Dulles
75
James Dean
95
2
101
Polarization and Protest
181
Nixon and the End of U S Involvement in Indochina
194
The Environmental and Consumer Movements
209
The Tragedy of Watergate
226
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229
Feminism and American Society
238
The Emergence of Ronald Reagan and the New Right
257
The Reagan Foreign Policy and a New Soviet Confrontation
272

Robert McNamara
111
Senator J William Fulbright A Voodoo Foreign Policy
119
Lynda Van Devanter
126
Sixties Society and Culture
128
Political Trends on the Left and the Right
141
Civil Rights Victories and Divisions
164
More Culture Wars
289
Bill Clintons America and the Impeachment of a President
306
75
311
The Election of George W Bush Terrorism and
325
Condoleezza Rice
343
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