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基本説明
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.
Full Description
The second 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 our first black President, 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. The Making of Modern America, Second Edition is updated to include:-An expanded chapter titled "America After the New Millenium" which more retrospectively and completely details the 21st century's first decade. -A new chapter titled "The Second Bush and Obama: From the War on Terrorism to the Audacity of Hope" updating readers on the calamitous end to President George W. Bush's second term, the Obama administration's first term challenges and the Great Recession.-Newly revised readings each profiling an historical event, speech or figure-Lee Harvey Oswald to Bill Gates to Condoleeza Rice- at the conclusion of each chapter.
Contents
Preface1 Postwar AdjustmentsEnter Harry Truman, the "Little Man from Missouri"The Postwar Economy and Its ImpactThe American FamilyThe Changing Place of WomenTruman, the Economy, and Organized LaborOrigins of the Modern Civil Rights MovementTruman, the Eightieth Congress, and the Election of 1948The Fair Deal and Truman's Second TermConclusionReading: A. Philip Randolph2 The Early Cold WarYalta and the End of the WarHarry Truman and the Growth of ConflictThe Architects of ContainmentBerlin Crisis and NATOCold War in Asia and the Origins of the Korea ConflictNSC-68 and the Redirection of American Foreign PolicyThe Cold War Comes HomeKorea, "The Forgotten War"The 1952 Campaign and the End of an EraConclusionReading: Truman and Israel3 Affluence and Anxiety: America in the 1950sThe FamilyIt Was All on TVCinema in the FiftiesCool CultureThe BeatsAdvances in Medical and Biological Science Literary GenresDrama and TheaterThe New American ReligionConclusionReading: A Little Bit of Rock 'n' Roll4 The Eisenhower PresidencyEisenhower and Domestic PolicyA "New Look" at Foreign PolicyCovert Operations in Iran and GuatemalaThe Suez Crisis and America's Postwar Involvement in the Middle EastThe Hungarian CrisisEarly Involvement in Southeast AsiaProblems in CubaMcCarthyism, Anti-Communist Hysteria, and Conformity at HomeSecond Reconstruction: Civil Rights in the FiftiesBrown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KansasMontgomery and KingLittle RockThe Politics of Civil Rights and the Civil Rights Act of 1957ConclusionReading: Sputnik and the Space Race5 Kennedy at Home and AbroadElection of 1960The Best and the BrightestThe New FrontierThe Second Reconstruction-ContinuedFreedom RidesBirmingham/BombinghamA Most Dangerous TimeCuba and the Bay of PigsBerlin and the WallThe Cuban Missile CrisisJFK and VietnamTragedy in DallasConclusionReading: Lee Harvey Oswald6 "We Shall Continue"Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedy LegacyThe Election of 1964 and the Liberal MandateGreat SocietyThe Second Reconstruction-ContinuedFreedom SummerMississippi Freedom Democratic PartySelma and Voting RightsLyndon Johnson's WarConclusionReading: Lyndon Johnson, "Promises to Keep," Johns Hopkins University Speech, April 7, 19657 The Nation in the 1960sYouth Culture: From Birth to FadThe Americanization of the WarThe Antiwar Movement and the New Left"I Will Not Accept": The Tragedy of Lyndon JohnsonThe 1968 CampaignBlack Power and the Radicalization of the Civil Rights MovementUrban RiotsBacklashA Call for Social Change and RecognitionThe New American FeminismOn "The Pill"ConclusionReading: Space, the Final Frontier8 Out of the 1960s and into the 1970s: The Agony of ChangeNixon in the White HouseNixon Looks at the WorldThe Legacy of VietnamDetenteNixon and ChinaWatergate and the Resignation of a PresidentConclusionReading: A Golden Age: Sports from the Mid-1960s to the Mid-1970s9 America in the 1970s: The Post-Watergate YearsTaking Stock: A Statistical AnalysisThe Accession of Gerald FordPolitics, War, and the Oil ShockRise of the ComputerForeign Affairs under FordThe New EnvironmentalismElection of 1976The Carter Presidency: The Domestic FrontThe Carter Presidency: Foreign AffairsDebacle in the Middle EastPresidential Campaign of 1980ConclusionReading: Jonestown10 The Reagan YearsReagan the ManReaganomicsThe New Cold WarCentral AmericaReagan in the Middle East-and LebanonSDI and U.S.-Soviet RelationsCulture and Society of the 1980s and the Rise of the Religious RightWar on DrugsAIDS, "The Gay Epidemic"Education in the Reagan YearsThe "Me" Generation and the Culture of NarcissismReagan in His Second AdministrationIran-ContraThe Eighties CharacterThe 1988 CampaignConclusionReading: Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address, January 11, 198911 The Kinder, Gentler Conservatism of George H. W. BushThe First President Bush and the Making of an American DynastyBush and the WorldThe Collapse of the Soviet UnionThe First Gulf WarAmerica at HomeThe Continued AIDS CrisisThe Environment and George BushThe New CourtThe New DiversityA Divided Black America1992 CampaignConclusionReading: America's New Feminism12 Bill Clinton's AmericaPartisanship RebornAn Economic Focus out of the BoxHealth CareThe "New Clinton"Republican AscensionThe Go-Go 1990sForeign Policy in the Clinton AdministrationTerrorism, Foreign and DomesticThe 1996 Campaign and More ModerationKosovoScandal and "Monicagate"Bush versus Gore: Election of 2000ConclusionReading: O. J.13 America after the New MillenniumAfrican Americans in the New CenturyAffirmative ActionImmigration and MulticulturalismThe Abortion DebateGay RightsStem Cell Research, Intelligent Design, and Terry SchiavoThe Graying of AmericaThe Environment and Global WarmingThe New EconomyThe Origins of the Internet and the Computer CultureMedical Science: The Human Genome ProjectConclusionReading: Bill Gates14 The Second Bush and Obama: From the War on Terrorism to the Audacity of HopeGeorge W. BushThe War on TerrorThe End of the Boom EconomyThe 2004 ElectionThe Growing Problems in IraqThe New Nuclear ThreatDisaster at HomeA Statistician's ViewThe New PoliticsThe Great RecessionThe U.S. in the Modern WorldConclusionReading: Condoleezza RiceSelected BibliographyIndexAbout the Author
