The Making of Modern America

The Nation from 1945 to the Present

Gary A. Donaldson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

472 Seiten

2017 | Third Edition
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-0446-0 (ISBN)

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The third edition of Dr. Gary A. Donaldson’s highly successful textbook The Making of Modern America, introduces students to the cultural, social and political paths the United States has traveled from the end of WWII to the present day. While deftly cataloguing the sweeping changes and major events in America from “Dewey Defeats Truman” through the election of Donald Trump, this newly updated edition never loses touch with that American history taking place at the level of the people. This edition details not just the United States’ rich cultural history, but elegantly repositions it as integral to our understanding of any portion of this country’s past. Donaldson provides a factual foundation for students and then pushes them to interpret those facts, framing the discussions essential to any complete study of American history.

Gary A. Donaldson (PhD, LSU) is the Keller Foundation Chair in American History at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. He is the author of numerous books on American political and diplomatic history.

Preface

Chapter 1: Postwar Adjustments
Chapter 2: The Early Cold War
Chapter 3: Affluence and Anxiety: America in the 1950s
Chapter 4: The Eisenhower Presidency
Chapter 5: Kennedy at Home and Abroad
Chapter 6: “We Shall Continue”
Chapter 7: The Nation in the 1960s
Chapter 8: Out of the 1960s and into the 1970s: The Agony of Change
Chapter 9: America in the 1970s: The Post-Watergate Years
Chapter 10: The Reagan Years
Chapter 11: The Kinder, Gentler Conservatism of George H. W. Bush
Chapter 12: Bill Clinton’s America
Chapter 13: America after the New Millennium
Chapter 14: The Second Bush and Obama: From the War on Terrorism to the Audacity of Hope

Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	31.01.2018
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	644 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-5381-0446-6 / 1538104466
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-0446-0 / 9781538104460
Zustand	Neuware