The Proud Decades: America in War and Peace, 1941-1960

by John Patrick Diggins

Overview

"Richly instructive. . . . With characteristic cogency and verve John Diggins has painted a memorable portrait of the United States at a triumphant moment in its history."—David M. Kennedy, Stanford University

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393956566
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	08/17/1989
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

John Patrick Diggins is the author of The Rise and Fall of the American Left and The Proud Decades: 1941–1960, in addition to biographies of John Adams and Max Weber. He is a distinguished professor of history at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He lives in New York City.

Editorial Reviews

"A superbly and provocatively written account that somehow successfully combines social, cultural, political, and diplomatic history (Kinsey, Bogart, McCarthy, Eisenhower, along with many others) to give us the overview we have needed of that mid-century shift that changed the course of American life—even before we entered the Sixties."

Walter LaFeber

In this highly readable survey of the period bracketed by Pearl Harbor and the election of John F. Kennedy, the author pays special attention to the years before the complacency-shattering launch of Sputnik in 1957 . ``Diggins covers a lot of territory with grace and clarity,'' praised PW. Photos. (Aug.)

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