The rise and fall of the American century : United States from 1890-2009 / William H. Chafe.

By: Chafe, William HMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2009Description: x, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780195382624 (acid-free paper); 0195382625 (acid-free paper); 9780195383447; 0195383443Subject(s): United States -- History -- 20th century | United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century | Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century | United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century | United States -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 973.91 LOC classification: E741 | .C33 2009
Contents:
Introduction: The 1890s, a preview of the next century -- The dawn of progressivism -- America and the world -- The roaring twenties -- FDR and the New Deal -- World War II : 1941-1945 -- The Cold War and the politics of anti-communism : 1945-1952 -- Ike and the affluent society : an age of contradictions -- From Camelot to fragmentation : the 1960s -- Polarization, paranoia, and a new conservatism : America in the 1970s -- Morning in America : Ronald Reagan -- The end of one war, the start of another : politics, culture, and specter of terrorism in the 1990s -- The end of the American century? The first decade of the new millennium.
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Includes index.

Introduction: The 1890s, a preview of the next century -- The dawn of progressivism -- America and the world -- The roaring twenties -- FDR and the New Deal -- World War II : 1941-1945 -- The Cold War and the politics of anti-communism : 1945-1952 -- Ike and the affluent society : an age of contradictions -- From Camelot to fragmentation : the 1960s -- Polarization, paranoia, and a new conservatism : America in the 1970s -- Morning in America : Ronald Reagan -- The end of one war, the start of another : politics, culture, and specter of terrorism in the 1990s -- The end of the American century? The first decade of the new millennium.

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