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About the Authors |
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Note to Students |
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PART I The Cold War System Abroad and at Home |
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CHAPTER 1 The Atomic Bombings |
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Gar Alperovitz, Why the United States Dropped the Bomb |
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Barton J. Bernstein, The Atomic Bombings Reconsidered |
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CHAPTER 2 The Origins of the Cold War |
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John Lewis Gaddis, Rethinking Cold War History |
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Carolyn Eisenberg, The American Decision to Divide Germany |
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Bruce Cumings, The Wicked Witch of the West Is Dead. Long Live the Wicked Witch of the East |
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Leslie A. Fiedler, McCarthy |
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Ellen Schrecker, McCarthyism and the Universities |
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K.A. Cuordileone, Cold War Political Culture and the Crisis in American Masculinity |
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CHAPTER 4 Affluence, Domesticity, and the Fifties |
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Elaine Tyler May, Politics and the Family in Postwar America |
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Alan Brinkley, The Illusion of Unity in Cold War Culture |
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Margaret Rose, Gender and Civic Activism in Mexican American Barrios in California |
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PART II The System Under Stress |
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CHAPTER 5 The Black Freedom Struggle |
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Vincent Gordon Harding, The Radicalism of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Timothy B. Tyson, Robert F. Williams and "Black Power" |
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Charles M Payne, Brown v. Board and the Mystification of Race |
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CHAPTER 6 The New Radicals |
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Doug Rossinow, Christianity and the Emergence of the New Left |
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Max Elbaum, What Legacy from the Radical Internationalism of 1968? |
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CHAPTER 7 Second-Wave Feminism |
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Sara M Evans, The Origins of the Women's Liberation Movement |
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Nancy MacLean, The Hidden History of Affirmative Action |
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CHAPTER 8 The War on Poverty |
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Allen Matusow, The Failure of the Welfare State |
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Michael B. Katz, From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare |
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CHAPTER 9 The Vietnam War |
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Robert Buzzanco, Why (Not) Vietnam? |
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George C. Herring, The "Vietnam Syndrome" and American Foreign Policy |
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CHAPTER 10 The Crisis of the State |
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Lewis L. Gould, Richard Nixon and the Rise of the Continuous Campaign |
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Michael Schudson, Watergate in American Memory |
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PART III A New Domestic and World Order |
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CHAPTER 11 The Conservative Ascendancy |
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Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall, Race, Rights, and American Politics |
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Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors |
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237 | (6) |
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Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas? |
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CHAPTER 12 Reaganomics and Beyond |
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Barbara Ehrenreich, Yuppies and the Culture of the 1980's |
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Robert Collins, The Reagan Revolution |
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Michael Meeropol, How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution |
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CHAPTER 13 The End of the Cold War |
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Dinesh D'Souza, How Reagan Won the Cold War |
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278 | (6) |
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Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberry, Who Won the Cold War? |
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Edward Pessen, Losing Our Souls |
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Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Globalization and Its Discontents |
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Jagdish Bhagwati, The Human Face of Globalization |
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Douglas S. Massey, Closed-Door Policy |
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CHAPTER 15 The 9/11 Attacks |
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The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, The 9/11 Report |
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Chalmers Johnson, Blowback |
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