America in the fifties /
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| Author / Creator: | Dunar, Andrew J. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2006. |
| Description: | xiii, 351 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | America in the twentieth century |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6205790 |
Table of Contents:
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Origins: Postwar America and the Roots of the Fifties
- 2. Fair Deal to Farewell: The Domestic Tribulations of Truman's Second Term
- 3. The Korean War
- 4. Liking Ike: Domestic Politics in Eisenhower's First Term, 1953-1956
- 5. The Uneasy Mantle of a Major Power: Foreign Policy, 1953-1956
- 6. People of Plenty: The Transformation of American Society
- 7. Other Americans: The Rights and Plights of Citizens
- 8. The Tube and the Big Screen: Television and Movies
- 9. The Nonconformist Fifties: The Arts and Popular Culture During the Cold War
- 10. Foreign Policy at the Dawn of the Space Age, 1957-1960
- 11. The End of the Ike Age
- Index
