Includes bibliographical references (p. [549]-558).
Part I: The Cold War Abroad and at Home: The Atomic Bomb and the Cold War
Robert Messer, New Evidence on Truman's decision
Gar Alperovitz, More on Atomic Diplomacy
Henry Wallace, Are We Only Paying Lip Service to Peace
Clark Clifford, American Firmness vs. Soviet Aggression
* Harry Truman, The Truman Doctrine
* NSC-68, A Report to the National Security Council
* Melvin Leffler, American Cold War Policies Reexamined
* Joseph McCarthy, The Internal Communist Menace
Margaret Chase Smith, Republican Declaration of Conscience
Lillian Hellman, Scoundrel Time
* Richard Fried, Night in Red
Part II: The Politics of the Affluent Society
Godfrey Hodgson, The Ideology of the Liberal Consensus
Dwight D. Eisenhower, The Military-Industrial Complex
John F. Kennedy, The New Frontier in Space
Lyndon B. Johnson, The Great Society
* Charles Murray, The Poverty of the Great Society
Part III: The African American Struggle
Harvard Sitkoff, The Preconditions for Racial Change
Vincent Harding, So Much History, So Much Future: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Second Comming of America
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail
* Malcolm X, Message to the Grass Roots
Bayard Rustin, From Protest to Politics, or Kerner Comm Report
Part IV: The Challenge to Sexism
William H. Chafe, Social Change and the American Women, 1940-1970
Sara Evans Women's Consciousness and the Southern Black Movement
bell hooks, Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory
Rebecca Klatch, Women against Feminism
* Roe vs. Wade, The Abortion Issue
* Estelle Freedman and John D'Emilio, The Gay Rights Movement
Part V: War in Vietnam
John Garry Clifford, Vietnam in Historical Perspective
Lyndon B. Johnson, Why we are in Vietnam
Leslie Gelb, Causes of The War
Richard Hammer, One Morning in the War
* Richard Nixon, The Cambodian Incursion
John Kerry, Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Part VI: Years of Polarization Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement
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 Matusow, Rise and Fall of Counterculture
Peter Schrag, The Forgotten American
Part VII: Politics of the 1970's and the 1980's
Johnathan Schell, Watergate
Jimmy Carter, America's Crisis of Confidence
Ronald Regan, "The Second American Revolution"
* Kevin Phillips, Regan's America: A Capitol Offense
Part VIII: Towards a New Century
Robert B. Reich, As the World Turns
William Julius Wilson, The Urban Underclass in Advanced Industrial Society
* Albert Gore, The Global Environmental Crisis
* William Clinton, Speech
* Daniel Deudney and John Ikenberry, After the Long War
* Jeff Schmalz, Whatever Happened to AIDS?
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