Grand expectations : the United States, 1945-1974

Summary: A portrait of America from 1945 through Watergate that weaves the major political, cultural, and economic events of the period.

Record details

ISBN: 0195117972
ISBN: 9780195117974
Physical Description: print
xviii, 829 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997, ©1996.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 791-802) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Veterans, ethnics, blacks, women -- Unions, liberals, and the state: stalemate -- Booms -- Grand expectations about the world -- Hardening of the Cold War, 1945-1948 -- Domestic politics: Truman's first term -- Red scares abroad and at home -- Korea -- Ike -- World affairs, 1953-1956 -- The biggest boom yet -- Mass consumer culture -- Race -- A center holds, more or less, 1957-1960 -- The polarized sixties: an overview -- The new frontier at home -- JFK and the world -- Lyndon Johnson and American liberalism -- A great society and the rise of rights-consciousness -- Escalation in Vietnam -- Rights, polarization, and backlash, 1966-1967 -- The most turbulent year: 1968 -- Rancor and Richard Nixon -- Nixon, Vietnam, and the world, 1969-1974 -- End of an era? Expectations amid Watergate and recession.