Quest for Identity: America since 1945Quest for Identity is a survey of the American experience from the close of World War II, through the Cold War and 9/11, to the present. It helps students understand postwar American history through a seamless narrative punctuated with accessible analyses. Randall Woods addresses and explains the major themes that punctuate the period: the Cold War, the Civil Rights and Women's Rights movements, and other great changes that led to major realignments of American life. While political history is emphasized, Woods also discusses in equal measure cultural matters and socio-economic problems. Dramatic new patterns of immigration and migration characterized the period as much as the counterculture, the growth of television and the Internet, the interstate highway system, rock and roll, and the exploration of space. The pageantry, drama, irony, poignancy and humor of the American journey since World War II are all here. |
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Contents
Containing Communism and Managing | 4 |
The Origins of the Cold War | 32 |
Dwight D Eisenhower and the Politics | 73 |
Farmers Workers and the Economy | 80 |
Black America and the Struggle for Civil Equality | 86 |
Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Bus Boycott | 92 |
and the Cold War | 99 |
American Society 19451960 | 121 |
Vietnam Black Power | 248 |
Realpolitik or Imperialism? Nixon Kissinger and American | 281 |
Richard M Nixon and | 320 |
American Society 19601980 | 351 |
The Presidencies of Gerald R Ford | 399 |
The Reagan Era | 438 |
America into the TwentyFirst Century | 481 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Quest for Identity: America since 1945 |
| Author | Randall Bennett Woods |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 1139444263, 9781139444262 |
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