Grand Expectations The United States, 1945-1974
by Patterson, James T.Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-11-20
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
A highly readable and balanced work that weaves the major political, cultural, and economic events of the period into a superb portrait of America from 1945 through Watergate, "Grand Expectations" offers a brilliant summation of the years which created the America we know today. 48 illustrations. 4 maps.
Author Biography
James T. Patterson is Ford Foundation Professor of History at Brown University.
Table of Contents
| Editor's Introduction | |
| Prologue: August 1945 | p. 3 |
| Veterans, Ethnics, Blacks, Women | p. 10 |
| Unions, Liberals, and the State: Stalemate | p. 39 |
| Booms | p. 61 |
| Grand Expectations About the World | p. 82 |
| Hardening of the Cold War, 1945-1948 | p. 105 |
| Domestic Politics: Truman's First Term | p. 137 |
| Red Scares Abroad and at Home | p. 165 |
| Korea | p. 207 |
| Ike | p. 243 |
| World Affairs, 1953-1956 | p. 276 |
| The Biggest Boom Yet | p. 311 |
| Mass Consumer Culture | p. 343 |
| Race | p. 375 |
| A Center Holds, More or Less, 1957-1960 | p. 407 |
| The Polarized Sixties: An Overview | p. 442 |
| The New Frontier at Home | p. 458 |
| JFK and the World | p. 486 |
| Lyndon Johnson and American Liberalism | p. 524 |
| A Great Society and the Rise of Rights-Consciousness | p. 562 |
| Escalation in Vietnam | p. 593 |
| Rights, Polarization, and Backlash, 1966-1967 | p. 637 |
| The Most Turbulent Year: 1968 | p. 678 |
| Rancor and Richard Nixon | p. 710 |
| Nixon, Vietnam, and The World, 1969-1974 | p. 743 |
| End of an Era? Expectations amid Watergate and Recession | p. 771 |
| Bibliographical Essay | p. 791 |
| Index | p. 803 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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