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Index
Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments PROLOGUE - A Time of Paradox: America since 1890 PRELUDE - The 1890s: Bridge to the Twentieth Century PART I - An Era of Awakening, 1900–1919
Prologue Time Line
An Era of Awakening, 1900–1919
CHAPTER ONE - TR, Taft, and the Progressive Impulse
Theodore Roosevelt The Spirit of Reform Invigorating the Presidency Raking the Muck TR and Taft: From Friends to Foes “We Stand at Armageddon”
CHAPTER TWO - America Looks Outward, 1900–1912
The Roosevelt Corollary Roosevelt and the Panama Canal America as a Pacific Power European Diplomacy Taft’s Foreign Policy
CHAPTER THREE - Nations within: The Experiences of Immigrants, Minorities, and Workers
Reform in the City Immigrants Women’s Suffrage and New Possibilities An Expanding Economy Growth of Organized Labor Progress and Problems for African Americans and Native Americans
CHAPTER FOUR - A Culture Awakening, 1900–1919
Reading for the Masses The Promise of Politics, History, and Philosophy Realms of Religious Belief Ash Cans and Architects Innovations in Music Stage and Screen Spectator Sports
CHAPTER FIVE - Wilson, Reform, and the Coming of War
Woodrow Wilson Domestic Reform under Wilson Wilson and the World The Trials of Neutrality “A Message of Death”
CHAPTER SIX - From World War to Lost Peace
Home Front Management “Over There” Intolerance and the Red Scare The Peace Conference “Dare We Reject It?”
Bibliographic Essay
The 1890s 1900–1920 Progressivism Major Political Leaders Other Political Figures Racial Issues, Sound Reform, Business, and Labor Diplomacy and War
PART II - An Era of Trial and Triumph, 1920–1945
Prologue Time Line
An Era of Trial and Triumph, 1920–1945
CHAPTER SEVEN - The 1920s: Decade of Fear, Decade of Excess
Intolerance and Discrimination Prosperity and Poverty Lindbergh and Ford: Heroes in the Air, on the Road New Manners and Morals Religion: Beacon of Hope; Ally of Prejudice Prohibition in Triumph and Trial
CHAPTER EIGHT - Republicanism from Prosperity to the Great Depression
The 1920 Election Harding’s Presidency Scandal and History’s Verdict “Silent Cal” The Economy According to Coolidge Hoover from Triumph to Tragedy The Stock Market Crash and Onset of the Great Depression “I Pledge ... A New Deal”
CHAPTER NINE - Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
A Presidential Temperament The Hundred Days and the First New Deal The Second New Deal Work for the Workers The Paradox of Minorities: Economic Help, Political Neglect Opponents of the New Deal Trial and Triumph for Roosevelt An Assessment of the New Deal
CHAPTER TEN - Culture: Revolt and Retreat
The 1920s and the 1930s “The Lost Generation” The Proletariat as Protagonist “All That Jazz” The Radio Silence to Sound on Screen Visions of America Education and the Intellectuals Refuge in Religion Sports: Cheering and Playing
CHAPTER ELEVEN - Interwar Diplomacy
Nonintervention and Internationalism Postwar Payback: Debts and Reparations Campaigns for World Peace Japanese Aggression The “Good Neighbor” Hitler’s Rise to Power Outbreak of War FDR’S Third Term “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy”
CHAPTER TWELVE - World War II: Home Front and Battlefront, 1941–1945
Transformation Mobilizing the Economy Civil Liberties and Racial Tension The United States at War D-Day: The Great Invasion 1944: Wartime Election End of the Third Reich The War Turns against Japan The Atomic Age Begins
Bibliographic Essay
General Works Presidents, Prosperity, and Depression Culture Diplomacy and War
PART III - An Era of Uncertainty, 1945–1968
Prologue Time Line
An Era of Uncertainty, 1945–1968
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - The Fair Deal and the Cold War, 1945–1952
Harry S Truman and the Postwar Economy The Fair Deal From World War to Cold War Containment in Asia, War in Korea The Cold War at Home “I Like Ike”
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - Peace and Peril, 1953–1960
Dwight D. Eisenhower The Warren Court and the Judicial Revolution Peace—And a Tie—In Korea Dominoes in Vietnam Uncertainty in the Middle East and Latin America Anxiety from Above: Satellites, Missiles, and Spy Planes 1960: Running for TV Cameras
CHAPTER FIFTEEN - The Affluent Society
The 1950s and 1960s The Economy Suburbia, Migration, and the Baby Boomers The Sexual Revolution A Spiritual Barometer New Entitlements
CHAPTER SIXTEEN - Cultural Dissent
Hollywood: A Star-Crossed City TV: Home Entertainment in a Box Rockin’ to New Rhythms History and Literature after the Guns of World War On Stage and Canvas Sports: Winning and Losing The Rise of the Counterculture The Rainbow of Power
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - New Frontiers, New Anxieties at Home, 1961–1968
The Frontier of the 1960s The Economic Frontier Civil Rights: Progress and Unmet Expectations The Assassination of JFK Lyndon Baines Johnson 1964: Lyndon’s Landslide The Great Society An Activist Supreme Court Racial Rights and Wrongs Assessment of the Great Society
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - Foreign Anxieties, 1961–1968
Kennedy and Castro Hotspots in Berlin and Indochina The Cuban Missile Crisis LBJ: The Benefactor and the Gunslinger The Little War That Wouldn’t Go Away Vietnam and the Election of 1968
Bibliographic Essay
Truman And Eisenhower Society and Culture The Sixties
PART IV - An Era of Diversity, since 1969
Prologue Time Line
An Era of Diversity, 1969–Present
CHAPTER NINETEEN - The Nixon Years, 1969–1974
Richard Nixon Fighting Inflation and Crime Global Change: Détente and the Yom Kippur War Withdrawal from Vietnam Watergate
CHAPTER TWENTY - Healing and Malaise: The Ford and Carter Administrations
The Tribulations of Gerald R. Ford The Fall of Saigon The Election of 1976 Jimmy Carter The Economy and Malaise Interest Groups Cold Warrior and Peacemaker Humiliation in Tehran The 1980 Election
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - The Reagan Rebellion
Ronald Reagan The Reagan Enigma The Battleground of the Budget “Morning in America” Reagan and the “Evil Empire” Other Foreign Challenges The Iran-Contra Affair Reagan’s Legacy
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - A Culture of Diversity
The Jaws of Hollywood The Changing Sound of Music Picturing and Wiring the World Writing and Performing in an Electronic Age The Cost of Sports
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE - “Can We All Get Along?”: The Soul of the Nation
Diversity and Change Booms and Busts Moving toward the Right Lessons in Education Gender and Society Pluralism and Polarization
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR - From George Bush to George W. Bush
George Bush Delicate Diplomacy: Warmaking and Peacemaking From Victory in Iraq to Loss at the Polls William “Bill” Jefferson Clinton Economic Laser Beam A Prosperous Yet Turbulent Second Term A Dangerous World Sex, Lies, and Impeachment
POSTLUDE - The Presidency of George W. Bush
Terror from the Sky The Political War Foreign Policy in Bush’s Second Term
Bibliographic Essay
Nixon through Reagan Culture and Society The Bush and Clinton Presidencies Postlude
EPILOGUE - A Time of Paradox Index About the Author
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