The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II, 4th ed. and A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America, 5th ed. Two book set,9780195146950

The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II, 4th ed. and A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America, 5th ed. Two book set

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Edition: 4th
ISBN13: 9780195146950
ISBN10: 0195146956
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-01-18
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

This is a package of two of Oxford's most popular American history texts: An Unfinished Journey , a text on post-World War II America written by William H. Chafe, and A History of Our Time , edited by Chafe and Harvard Sitkoff, which is a collection of documents covering the same time period. Professors who elect to use both books will be able to purchase both together at a discounted price.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
The War Years
3(28)
Origins of the Cold War
31(23)
Truman and the Cold War
54(25)
``The Other Half of the Walnut''
79(32)
Social Reform and Activism in the Postwar Years
The Paradox of Change
111(35)
American Society in the Postwar Years
The Civil Rights Movement
146(31)
``The Gods Bring Threads to Webs Begun''
John F. Kennedy
177(44)
The Reality and the Myth
LBJ
221(26)
The Trial of Consensus
Vietnam-The Early Years
247(26)
``Lyndon's War''
273(29)
Coming Apart at Home
302(41)
1968
343(38)
``Bringing Us Together''
381(49)
New Rules, Old Realities
430(40)
The Continuing Intersection of Gender, Class, and Race in the Seventies
The Reagan Years
470(27)
The 1990s
497(40)
A Referendum on the Post-World War II Years
Epilogue 537(6)
Bibliographical Essay 543(16)
Index 559

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