Quest for identity : America since 1945 / Randall Bennett Woods
- Author
- Woods, Randall Bennett, 1944-
- Published
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 593 pages) : illustrations
Access Online
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- The republic in transition : demobilization and reconversion -- The origins of the Cold War -- Staying the course : Dwight D. Eisenhower and the politics of moderation -- Containing Communism and managing the military-industrial complex : the Eisenhower administration and the Cold War -- Capitalism and conformity : American society, 1945-1960 -- Liberalism reborn : John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and the politics of activism -- The wages of globalism : foreign affairs during the Kennedy-Johnson era -- The dividing of America : Vietnam, Black power, the counterculture, and the election of 1968 -- Realpolitik or imperialism? : Nixon, Kissinger, and American foreign policy -- The limits of expediency : Richard M. Nixon and the American presidency -- From confidence to anxiety : American society, 1960-1980 -- Governing in a malaise : the presidencies of Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter -- The culture of narcissism : the Reagan era -- In search of balance : America into the twenty-first century.
- Summary
- Quest 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.
- Report Numbers
- MYILIB_CUp
- Subject(s)
- Since 1945
- National characteristics, American
- Américains
- HISTORY
- Social conditions
- Kultur
- Wirtschaftspolitik
- Außenpolitik
- Sozialpolitik
- Gesellschaft
- Nationale kenmerken
- Sociale situatie
- Politieke situatie
- United States—History—1945-
- United States—Social conditions—1945-
- États-Unis—Histoire—1945-
- États-Unis—Conditions sociales—1945-
- United States
- USA
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 0511111495 (electronic bk.)
9780511111495 (electronic bk.)
9780511814020 (electronic bk.)
051181402X (electronic bk.)
1280422270
9781280422270
0511111169
9780511111167
9786610422272
6610422273
1107140080
9781107140080
0511181256
9780511181252
0511197853
9780511197857
0511298994
9780511298998
0521840651 (Cloth)
0521549973 (pbk.)
9780521840651
9780521549974 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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