William H. Chafe
Preface
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
"The
Gods Bring Threads to Webs Begun"
7. John F. Kennedy
The Reality and the Myth
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. An Era of Political Malaise
15. A
Divided Culture, a Divided Society
16. The Reagan Years
17. The 1990s
A Referendum on the Post-World War II Years
18. 2000 and Beyond
19. Barack Obama
A Utopian Vision Confronts Political Reality
Epilogue
Bibliographical Essay
Index
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William H. Chafe is Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History at Duke University. He is the author or coeditor of several books, including A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America, Eighth Edition (OUP, 2011) and The Rise and Fall of the American Century: The United States from
1890-2009 (OUP, 2009). He is a former president of the Organization of American Historians and his books have been recognized with the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (1981), the Sidney Hillman Book Award (1994), and the Lillian Smith Book Award (2003).
Writing History - William Kelleher Storey and Towser Jones
A History of Our Time - Edited by William H. Chafe, Harvard Sitkoff and Beth Bailey
Special Features
New to this Edition
- A revised discussion on President Kennedy, focusing particularly on his foreign policy with the Soviet Union and Cuba and his assassination.
- A detailed look at the impact of President Clinton's marriage on the politics of the 1990s.
- A new chapter on President
Obama's administration, assessing his promises and the realities that he encountered.
