Quest for identity : America since 1945 / Randall Bennett Woods.
2005
E741 .W88 2005eb
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Title
Quest for identity : America since 1945 / Randall Bennett Woods.
ISBN
0511111495 (electronic bk.)
9780511111495 (electronic bk.)
9780511814020 (electronic bk.)
051181402X (electronic bk.)
1280422270
9781280422270
0511111169
9780511111167
9786610422272
6610422273
1107140080
9781107140080
0511181256
9780511181252
0511197853
9780511197857
0511298994
9780511298998
0521840651 (Cloth)
0521549973 (pbk.)
9780521840651
9780521549974
9780511111495 (electronic bk.)
9780511814020 (electronic bk.)
051181402X (electronic bk.)
1280422270
9781280422270
0511111169
9780511111167
9786610422272
6610422273
1107140080
9781107140080
0511181256
9780511181252
0511197853
9780511197857
0511298994
9780511298998
0521840651 (Cloth)
0521549973 (pbk.)
9780521840651
9780521549974
Imprint
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 593 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
E741 .W88 2005eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)60656431
Summary
Quest for Identity is a survey of the American experience from the close of World War II, through the Cold War and 9/11, to the present. It helps students understand postwar American history through a seamless narrative punctuated with accessible analyses. Randall Woods addresses and explains the major themes that punctuate the period: the Cold War, the Civil Rights and Women's Rights movements, and other great changes that led to major realignments of American life. While political history is emphasized, Woods also discusses in equal measure cultural matters and socio-economic problems. Dramatic new patterns of immigration and migration characterized the period as much as the counterculture, the growth of television and the Internet, the interstate highway system, rock and roll, and the exploration of space. The pageantry, drama, irony, poignancy, and humor of the American journey since World War II are all here.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
The republic in transition : demobilization and reconversion
The origins of the Cold War
Staying the course : Dwight D. Eisenhower and the politics of moderation
Containing Communism and managing the military-industrial complex : the Eisenhower administration and the Cold War
Capitalism and conformity : American society, 1945-1960
Liberalism reborn : John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and the politics of activism
The wages of globalism : foreign affairs during the Kennedy-Johnson era
The dividing of America : Vietnam, Black power, the counterculture, and the election of 1968
Realpolitik or imperialism? : Nixon, Kissinger, and American foreign policy
The limits of expediency : Richard M. Nixon and the American presidency
From confidence to anxiety : American society, 1960-1980
Governing in a malaise : the presidencies of Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter
The culture of narcissism : the Reagan era
In search of balance : America into the twenty-first century.
The origins of the Cold War
Staying the course : Dwight D. Eisenhower and the politics of moderation
Containing Communism and managing the military-industrial complex : the Eisenhower administration and the Cold War
Capitalism and conformity : American society, 1945-1960
Liberalism reborn : John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and the politics of activism
The wages of globalism : foreign affairs during the Kennedy-Johnson era
The dividing of America : Vietnam, Black power, the counterculture, and the election of 1968
Realpolitik or imperialism? : Nixon, Kissinger, and American foreign policy
The limits of expediency : Richard M. Nixon and the American presidency
From confidence to anxiety : American society, 1960-1980
Governing in a malaise : the presidencies of Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter
The culture of narcissism : the Reagan era
In search of balance : America into the twenty-first century.
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Print version: Woods, Randall Bennett, 1944- Quest for identity. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005
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