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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
PROLOGUE: Rock Bottom
PART I: Rendezvous with Destiny, 1932–1941
1. The Cruelest Year
Depression Montage
2. Roosevelt!
Portrait of an American: ELEANOR
3. Stirrings
Mid-Thirties Montage
4. The Roosevelt Referendum
Portrait of an American: STOCKBROKER RICHARD WHITNEY
5. The Conservative Phoenix
Late Thirties Montage
6. A Shadow of Primitive Terror
Portrait of an American: NORMAN THOMAS
7. Through the Night with a Light from Above
Montage: The Last of Prewar America
8. America on the Brink
PART II: Sacrifice and Transformation, 1941–1950
9. Counterattack
Pacific Montage
10. The Home Front
Home Front Montage
11. Lilacs in the Dooryard
ETO Montage
12. A New World, Under a New Sun
Portrait of an American: THE REDHEAD
13. The Fraying Flags of Triumph
Postwar Montage
14. Life with Harry
15. A Little Touch of Harry in the Night
Late Forties Montage
16. The Age of Suspicion
Portrait of an American: EDWARD ROSCOE MURROW
17. Into the Abyss
Early Fifties Montage
PART III: Sowing the Wind, 1951–1960
18. A House Divided
19. Right Turn
Montage: The Early Eisenhower Years
20. What Was Good for General Motors
Portrait of an American: NORMA JEAN BAKER
21. Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman
Montage: The Mid-Fifties
22. With All Deliberate Speed
23. The Pursuit of Happiness
Montage: Eisenhower at Flood Tide
24. Beep Beep
Portrait of an American: THE EDSEL
25. The Crusade Falters
Late Fifties Montage
26. Tattoo for the General
PART IV: Reaping the Whirlwind, 1961–1968
27. A New Generation of Americans
Montage: The Early Sixties
28. Now the Trumpet Summoned Us Again
Portrait of an American: PETER CARL GOLDMARK
29. Don’t Let It Be Forgot
Montage: JFK/LBJ
30. The Long Arm
31. A Dream of Greatness—and Disenchantment
Montage: The Johnson Years
32. Up Against the Wall
Portrait of an American: KARL HESS III
33. The Year Everything Went Wrong
Montage: The Late Sixties
PART V: Nixon, After All, 1969–1972
34. The Rise of the Silent Majority
Portrait of an American: BENJAMIN MCLANE SPOCK, M.D.
35. Nattering Nabobs
Early Seventies Montage
36. The Divided States of America
Portrait of an American: RALPH NADER
37. Pride Goeth
EPILOGUE: Echoes
Acknowledgments
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Copyright Acknowledgments
Endnotes
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