A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America

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Part 1: Cold War Abroad and At Home Introduction Thomas G. Paterson: Truman's Cold War Policies George F. Keenan: Need to Contain Soviet Expansion Henry A. Wallace: Are We Only Paying Lip Service to Peace? Clark Clifford: American Firmness vs. Soviet Aggression Harry S. Truman: Truman Doctrine NSC-68: A Report to the National Security Council HUAC Investigates Hollywood Joseph R. McCarthy: Internal Communist Menace Ellen Schrecker: Age of McCarthyism Part 2: Politics of the Affluent Society Introduction Godfrey Hodgson: Ideology of the Liberal Consensus Stephen E. Ambrose: A Revisionist View of the Ike Age Lance Morrow: Re-evaluating JFK's Presidency Charles Murray: Losing Ground: Discredited Liberalism Part 3: Civil Rights Introduction Vincent Harding: So Much History, So Much Future: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Second Coming of America Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from a Birmingham Jail Malcolm X: Message to the Grass Roots Bayard Rustin: From Protest to Politics Part 4: Feminism Introduction Sara Evans: Women's Consciousness and the Southern Black Movement Bell Hooks: Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory Rebecca Klatch: Women Against Feminism Justice Harry A. Blackmun: Roe v. Wade, 1973 Estelle Freedman and John D'Emilio: Emergence of Gay Liberation Part 5: Vietnam and the Years of Polarization Introduction John Garry Clifford: Vietnam in Historical Perspective Leslie Gelb: Causes of the War Richard Hammer: One Morning in the War Students for a Democratic Society: Port Huron Statement William Chafe: Dump Johnson William Jefferson Clinton: Bill Clinton Draft Letter Karin Ashley et. al.: You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows Jerry Avorn et. al.: Up Against the Ivy Wall Allen J. Matusow: Rise and Fall of a Counterculture Peter Schrag: Forgotten American Part 6: Politics of the 1970s and 1980s Introduction Jonathan Schell: Watergate Jimmy Carter: America's Crisis of Confidence Ronald W. Reagan: The Second American Revolution Kevin P. Phillips: Reagan's America: A Capital Offense Part 7: Where do we go from here? Introduction Robert B. Reich: As the World Turns Williams Julius Wilson: Urban Underclass in Advanced Industrial Society Barry Bearak: Article on Ward Connerly Great X-pectations.

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