Research Catalog

Title

America in our time : from World War II to Nixon--what happened and why / Godfrey Hodgson ; with a new afterword by the author.

Author

Hodgson, Godfrey.

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005.

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Details

Description

xii, 590 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"America in Our Time is a history of the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the fall of Richard Nixon. Focusing on the 1960s, the book debunks some of the myths about that much misremembered decade. Godfrey Hodgson pioneers the idea that in the 1950s a "liberal consensus" governed American politics, by which conservatives accepted the liberal domestic policy of the welfare state, while all but a few liberals shared the conservative foreign policy of Cold War "containment." The book shows in rich detail how that consensus was shattered by the converging blows of racial upheaval, the Vietnam War, and a pervasive crisis of authority in American society, all the way from the family to the White House, opening the way for a new conservatism. Hodgson has added an afterword that looks back at the events covered in the book from the perspective of almost thirty years since it was published."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Since 1945
• 15.85 history of America
• Civilization
• Diplomatic relations
• Politics and government
• Social conditions
• United States > Social conditions > 1960-1980
• United States > Civilization > 1945-
• United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989
• United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1989
• United States

Note

• Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1976.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Hyperion -- 2. The 1940s -- 3. Abundance -- 4. The ideology of the liberal consensus -- 5. The presidency -- 6. The establishment -- 7. The media -- 8. The crisis -- 9. Black uprising -- 10. Black separatism -- 11. Vietnam : the beginning -- 12. Economic consequences -- 13. Fragmented consensus -- 14. The great schism -- 15. Telegraph avenue, son of Madison Avenue -- 16. An invasion of centaurs -- 17. Triumph and failure of a cultural revolution -- 18. The end of consensus -- 19. The discovery of middle America -- 20. War, peace and two Americas -- 21. More movements than movement -- 22. The capture of the new majority -- 23. No crystal stair -- 24. Ideology and consensus -- 25. Puzzled and prospering.

ISBN

• 0691122881
• 9780691122885

LCCN

• 2005048697
• 9780691122885

OCLC

60391862

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library