Table of Contents
List of Illustrations viii About the Contributors ix
Introduction xiii
PART I SOCIETY AND CULTURE 1
1 Family and Demography in Postwar America: A Hazard of New Fortunes? 3 Stephen Lassonde
2 The Power of Place: Race, Political Economy, and Identity in the Postwar Metropolis 20 Robert O. Self and Thomas J. Sugrue
3 American Religion Since 1945 44 James T. Fisher
4 Time Out: Leisure and Tourism 64 Susan G. Davis
5 Mass Media: From 1945 to the Present 78 Susan J. Douglas
6 What the Traffic Bares: Popular Music “Back in the USA” 96 Allen Tullos
7 The Visual Arts in Post-1945 America 113 Erika Doss
8 American Intellectual History and Social Thought Since 1945 134 Patrick N. Allitt
PART II PEOPLE AND MOVEMENTS 153
9 American Political Culture Since 1945 155 Richard H. King
10 Hyphen Nation: Ethnicity in American Intellectual and Political Life 175 Matthew Frye Jacobson
11 Labor During the American Century: Work, Workers, and Unions Since 1945 192 Joshua B. Freeman
12 The Historiography of the Struggle for Black Equality Since 1945 211 Kevin Gaines
13 Postwar Women’s History: The “Second Wave” or the End of the Family Wage? 235 Nancy MacLean
14 Sexuality and the Movements for Sexual Liberation 260 Beth Bailey
15 A Movement of Movements: The Definition and Periodization of the New Left 277 Van Gosse
16 The Triumph of Conservatives in a Liberal Age 303 David L. Chappell
17 Modern Environmentalism 328 Ian Tyrrell
PART III POLITICS AND FOREIGN POLICY 343
18 Beyond the Presidential Synthesis: Reordering Political Time 345 Julian E. Zelizer
19 McCarthyism and the Red Scare 371 Ellen Schrecker
20 The Politics of “The Least Dangerous Branch”: The Court, the Constitution, and Constitutional Politics Since 1945 385 Mary L. Dudziak
21 The Cold War in Europe 406 Carolyn Eisenberg
22 Off the Beach: The United States, Latin America, and the Cold War 426 Greg Grandin
23 The United States and East Asia in the Postwar Era 446 James I. Matray
24 Washington Quagmire: US Presidents and the Vietnam Wars –A Pattern of Intervention 464 David Hunt
25 The End of the Cold War 479 David S. Painter and Thomas S. Blanton
26 From the “Atomic Age” to the “Anti-Nuclear Age”: Nuclear Energy in Politics, Diplomacy, and Culture 501 J. Samuel Walker
PART IV ESSENTIAL READING 519
27 J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (1985) 521 Alan Brinkley
28 Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (1995) 525 Linda Gordon
29 Samuel Lubell, The Future of American Politics (1952, 1956, 1965) 529 Nelson Lichtenstein
30 Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were (1992) 534 Elaine Tyler May
31 Alphonso Pinkney, The Myth of Black Progress (1984) 537 Robert E. Weems, Jr.
32 Garry Wills, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (1970) 540 Robert Westbrook
33 Victor Navasky, Naming Names (1980) 545 Jon Wiener
34 Edward Said, Orientalism (1978) 550 Melani McAlister
Index 557