Winds of hope, storms of discord : the United States since 1945 /
Salim Yaqub, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Bok 2022
| Utgitt | Cambridge University Press , 2022
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Wake Up Willie : From War to Postwar, 1945-1948 -- An Indefinite Period of Tension and Anger : Hot War Abroad and Cold War at Home, 1949-1954 -- It's Like Turning Over a Rock : America in the Fifties -- Listen, Yankee : The Transformation of America's Cold War, 1956-1963 -- Is This America? : Civil Rights and the Liberal Movement, 1960-1965 -- Berkeley Cong : Fighting Abroad and Unraveling at Home, 1963-1968 -- Expletive Deleted : The Presidency of Richard Nixon, 1969-1974 -- Great Blinding Lightbulb : Women's Rights, Gay and Lesbian Rights, and New Understandings of Gender, Sexuality, and Family, 1960-1975 -- Soylent Green is People : America in the Seventies -- The Picture Always Overrides : America in the Reagan Years, 1981-1989 -- To Look Over the Horizon : From New Cold War to New World Order, 1981-1991 -- Triangulation : The Nineties and Bill Clinton -- Freedom Fries : George W. Bush, 9/11, and the Iraq war, 2001-2008 -- Yes We Can't : American Politics, 2009-2015 -- Crossfire Hurricane : The Trump Years, 2015-2021.. - "In brisk, vivid prose, the book covers the broad sweep of post-1945 U.S. history, addressing politics, economics, foreign relations, political activism, demographic transformation, and dizzying technological change. Extending to the spring of 2022, it shows how the turmoil, striving, triumphs, and setbacks of the last 77 years shaped today's world"--
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| ISBN | 1-108-65452-5. - 1-108-75110-5. - 1-108-75243-8
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