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This brief paperback covers the social, cultural, and political aspects of U.S. history from the end of World War II through the present. It includes special biographies and boxes on films of each era, as well as maps and photographs that bring each era to life. This interpretive textbook combines narrative and analytic history with a balanced perspective that covers elites and out-groups, liberals and conservatives, and modernists and traditionalists while explaining how technology, popular culture, and social innovation have affected mainstream life and institutions.
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This textbook explores some of the dilemmas that have confronted the United States since World War II. Horowitz (Portland State U.) and Carroll (Stanford U.) focus on the expansion of national economic and political power at home and abroad and the domestic conflicts precipitated by such growth. Eight chapters cover such topics as the anti-Communist crusade, the age of liberal activism, racial turmoil, Vietnam, and the centrist administrations of Bush and Clinton. Each chapter includes a popular culture reference to a film with particular social significance. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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