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050 00 $aE740.5$b.M63 2007
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245 00 $aModern America :$ba documentary history of the nation since 1945 /$cGary Donaldson, editor.
260 $aArmonk, N.Y. :$bM.E. Sharpe,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $axiv, 346 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 00 $g1.$tOrigins of the Cold War -- $g1.1.$tPresident Harry Truman's decision to drop the bomb -- $g1.2.$tGeorge Kennan and the strategy of "containment" -- $g1.3.$tGeneral Omar Bradley on the risks of a global war -- $g1.4.$tFrom Korea : love letters home -- $tBiographical sketch : J. Robert Oppenheimer -- $g2.$tPostwar political trends -- $g2.1.$tHubert Humphrey calls on the Democratic Party to champion civil rights -- $g2.2.$tHouse committee on un-American activities investigates Hollywood -- $g2.3.$tSenator Joseph McCarthy attacks the state department -- $g2.4.$tThe Kennedy-Nixon debates -- $tBiographical sketch : Strom Thurmond -- $g3.$tOrigins of the modern civil rights movement -- $g3.1.$tTo secure these rights. The report of the president's commission on civil rights -- $g3.2.$tBrown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas -- $g3.3.$tThe "southern manifesto" -- $g3.4.$tJohn Lewis remembers the Nashville sit-ins -- $tBiographical sketch : Rosa Parks -- $g4.$tThe Eisenhower administration's "new look" foreign policy -- $g4.1.$tSecretary of State John Foster Dulles and the strategy of massive retaliation -- $g4.2.$tNational security council briefing on the "implications of the Soviet earth satellite" -- $g4.3.$tPresident Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address -- $tBiographical sketch : John Foster Dulles -- $g5.$tThe fifties lifestyle -- $g5.1.$tJack Gould of the New York Times Pans Elvis -- $g5.2.$tGame show scandals -- $g5.3.$tBetty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique -- $g5.4.$tFemale sexuality in the 1950s : "myths that imperil married love" -- $tBiographical sketch : James Dean -- $g6.$tThe Cold War heats up during the Kennedy administration -- $g6.1.$tPresident John F. Kennedy's inaugural address -- $g6.2.$tDean Rusk recalls the bay of pigs incident -- $g6.3.$tPresident John F. Kennedy addresses the nation on the Cuban missile crisis -- $g6.4.$tKennedy and Vietnam. Two interviews -- $tBiographical sketch : Robert McNamara -- $g7.$tLyndon Johnson's war -- $g7.1.$tPresident Lyndon Johnson, "why we are in Vietnam" -- $g7.2.$tSenator J. William Fulbright, "a voodoo foreign policy" -- $g7.3.$tComing home from Vietnam -- $tBiographical sketch : Lynda Van Devanter -- $g8.$tSixties society and culture -- $g8.1.$tVaughn Meader, The first family -- $g8.2.$tBob Dylan, "the times they are a-changin'" -- $g8.3.$tJack Gould of the New York Times pans the beatles -- $g8.4.$tWhat they watched : top ten TV shows, 1960-1969 -- $tBiographical sketch : Janis Joplin -- $g9.$tPolitical trends on the left and the right -- $g9.1.$tThe "Sharon statement" and the "Port Huron statement" -- $g9.2.$tPresident Lyndon B. Johnson describes the "great society" -- $g9.3.$tBarry Goldwater, "extremism is no vice" -- $g9.4.$tTime attempts to define the "silent majority" -- $tBiographical sketch : Barry Goldwater -- $g10.$tCivil rights victories and divisions -- $g10.1.$tFannie Lou Hamer recalls her attempts to register and vote -- $g10.2.$tGeorge Wallace, "the civil rights movement is a hoax" -- $g10.3.$tCharles Hamilton defines black power -- $g10.4.$tPresident Lyndon Johnson, special message to Congress on civil rights -- $tBiographical sketch : Fannie Lou Hamer -- $g11.$tPolarization and protest -- $g11.1.$tThe "Weatherman manifesto" -- $g11.2.$tRonald Reagan recalls the 1969 Berkeley riots -- $g11.3.$tThe "Redstockings manifesto" and the rise of radical feminism -- $g11.4.$tThe legend of stonewall and gay activism -- $tBiographical sketch : Cesar Chavez -- $g12.$tNixon and the end of U.S. involvement in Indochina -- $g12.1.$tPresident Richard Nixon on the Vietnamization of the war -- $g12.2.$tJohn Kerry, testimony before the house foreign relations committee -- $g12.3.$tShanghai communique -- $tBiographical sketch : Henry Kissinger -- $g13.$tThe environmental and consumer movements -- $g13.1.$tRachel Carson, silent spring -- $g13.2.$tRalph Nader, unsafe at any speed -- $g13.3.$tLove Canal. Testimony before the senate subcommittee on environmental pollution and hazardous waste -- $g13.4.$t"To our friends beyond the radius, hi!" An open letter from the vicinity of three mile island -- $tBiographical sketch : Ralph Nader -- $g14.$tThe tragedy of watergate -- $g14.1.$tThe Washington Post breaks the story : "five held in plot to bug democrats' office" -- $g14.2.$tGoldwater eases Nixon out -- $g14.3.$t"I have never been a quitter." President Richard Nixon's resignation statement -- $tBiographical sketch : Mark Felt/deep throat -- $g15.$tFeminism and American society -- $g15.1.$tGloria Steinem, testimony before the senate judiciary committee on the equal rights amendment -- $g15.2.$tPhyllis Schlafty recalls her victory over the ERA -- $g15.3.$tThe Boston women's health book collective, our bodies, ourselves -- $g15.4.$tJustice Harry Blackmun for the court in Roe v. Wade -- $tBiographical sketch : Gloria Steinem -- $g16.$tThe emergence of Ronald Reagan and the new right -- $g16.1.$t"Government is not the solution." President Ronald Reagan's inaugural address -- $g16.2.$tT. Boone Pickens, "my case for Reagan" -- $g16.3.$t"The New American revolution." President Ronald Reagan's state of the union address -- $tBiographical sketch : Patrick Buchanan -- $g17.$tThe Reagan foreign policy and a new Soviet confrontation -- $g17.1.$tPresident Reagan's "evil empire" speech -- $g17.2.$tPresident Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" speech -- $g17.3.$tRonald Reagan recalls his frustrations over Central America -- $g17.4.$tNATO's "London declaration" and the end of the Cold War -- $tBiographical sketch : Oliver North -- $g18.$tMore culture wars -- $g18.1.$tRegents of the University of California v. Bakke -- $g18.2.$tJerry Falwell, listen America -- $g18.3.$tKandy Stroud, "stop pornographic rock" Frank Zappa responds : "cultural terrorism" -- $g18.4.$tDan Quayle attacks Murphy Brown -- $tBiographical sketch : Jerry Falwell -- $g19.$tBill Clinton's America and the impeachment of a president -- $g19.1.$tThe republican "contract with America" -- $g19.2.$t"The new covenant." President Bill Clinton's state of the union address -- $g19.3.$tScandal Engulfs President Bill Clinton -- $g19.4.$tArticles of impeachment -- $tBiographical sketch : Madeleine Albright -- $g20.$tThe election of George W. Bush, terrorism, and the crisis in the gulf -- $g20.1.$tThe 2000 presidential election : a contested outcome -- $g20.2.$t"Our very freedom came under attack." President George W. Bush addresses the nation on the evening of September 11, 2001 -- $g20.3.$t"States like these ... constitute an axis of evil." President George W. Bush's state of the union address -- $g20.4.$tThe 9/11 commission report (2004) -- $tBiographical sketch : Condoleezza Rice.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$y1945-$vSources.
700 1 $aDonaldson, Gary.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90685869
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0617/2006022275.html
852 00 $bmil$hE740.5$i.M63 2007