Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 519-532) and index.
Table of Contents
1. The War Years
2. Origins of the Cold War
3. Truman and the Cold War
4. "The Other Half of the Walnut": Social Reform and Activism in the Postwar Years
5. The Paradox of Change: American Society in the Postwar Years
6. The Civil Rights Movement
7. John F. Kennedy: The Myth and the Reality
8. LBJ: The Trial of Consensus
9. Vietnam--The Early Years
10. "Lyndon's War"
11. Coming Apart at Home
12. 1968
13. "Bringing Us Together"
14. New Rules, Old Realities
15. The Reagan Years
Epilogue