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Modern American lives : individuals and issues in American history since 1945
- Title
- Modern American lives : individuals and issues in American history since 1945 / Blaine T. Browne, Robert C. Cottrell.
- Author
- Browne, Blaine T. (Blaine Terry)
- Publication
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2008.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Cottrell, Robert C., 1950-
- Description
- xvi, 365 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-366).
- Contents
- George F. Kennan: architect of containment -- Henry A. Wallace: champion of the common man and cooperation -- I.F. Stone: dissenter in an age of conformity -- J. Edgar Hoover: fighter against the red menace -- Marilyn Monroe: symbol of the new sexuality -- Elvis Presley: rock and roll rebel -- Jackie Robinson: racial torchbearer in the national pastime -- Allen Ginsberg: avatar of the beats -- Curtis LeMay: Apostle of Armageddon -- C. Wright Mills: prophet of the new left -- Fannie Lou Hunter: Mississippi freedom fighter -- César Chávez: guardian of the United Farm Workers Union -- Tom Hayden: new left activist -- Barry Goldwater: hero of the new right -- Robert Kennedy: herald of the new politics -- George C. Wallace: practitioner of the politics of rage -- Jimi Hendrix: troubadour of psychedelia -- Bernadine Dohrn: reformer, radical revolutionary -- Gloria Steinem: feminist icon -- Phyllis Schafly: counterrevolutionary on the right -- Jerry Falwell: standard-bearer of the Christian right -- Bill Gates: prophet of techno times -- Tiger Woods: golf's great black hope -- Clarence Thomas: black conservative in judicial robes -- Paul Wolfowitz: Democratic imperialist -- Noam Chomsky: radical gadfly.
- Call Number
- ILH 09-7164
- ISBN
- 9780765622228 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 076562222X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780765622235
- 0765622238
- LCCN
- 2007025422
- OCLC
- 145938768
- Author
- Browne, Blaine T. (Blaine Terry)
- Title
- Modern American lives : individuals and issues in American history since 1945 / Blaine T. Browne, Robert C. Cottrell.
- Imprint
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-366).
- Added Author
- Cottrell, Robert C., 1950-
- Research Call Number
- ILH 09-7164