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America in Our Time: From World War II to Nixon--What Happened and Why
Godfrey Hodgson
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Description for America in Our Time: From World War II to Nixon--What Happened and Why
Paperback. Presents the history of the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the fall of Richard Nixon. Focusing on the 1960s, this book shows how the consensus was shattered by the converging blows of racial upheaval, the Vietnam War, and a pervasive crisis of authority in American society. Num Pages: 608 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 143 x 39. Weight in Grams: 814.
America in Our Time is a history of the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the fall of Richard Nixon. Focusing on the 1960s, the book debunks some of the myths about that much misremembered decade. Godfrey Hodgson pioneers the idea that in the 1950s a "liberal consensus" governed American politics, by which conservatives accepted the liberal domestic policy of the welfare state, while all but a few liberals shared the conservative foreign policy of Cold War "containment." The book shows in rich detail how that consensus was shattered by the converging blows of racial upheaval, ... Read more
America in Our Time is a history of the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the fall of Richard Nixon. Focusing on the 1960s, the book debunks some of the myths about that much misremembered decade. Godfrey Hodgson pioneers the idea that in the 1950s a "liberal consensus" governed American politics, by which conservatives accepted the liberal domestic policy of the welfare state, while all but a few liberals shared the conservative foreign policy of Cold War "containment." The book shows in rich detail how that consensus was shattered by the converging blows of racial upheaval, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691122885
SKU
V9780691122885
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About Godfrey Hodgson
Godfrey Hodgson is Associate Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, where he was the director of the Reuters Foundation Programme for eight years. He is the author of numerous books, including "More Equal Than Others" (Princeton). Hodgson is a former foreign correspondent for British newspapers and a television anchor for British news services who has ... Read more
Reviews for America in Our Time: From World War II to Nixon--What Happened and Why
Praise for the previous edition: "A critique so stimulating and compelling that I can only say read it."
Richard R. Lingeman, New York Times Praise for the previous edition: "[This book] simply gets right, without great fuss, the detail and proportion of things like the civil rights movement, student unrest, the stages of our Vietnam engagement."
Garry Wills, New York Review of ... Read more
Richard R. Lingeman, New York Times Praise for the previous edition: "[This book] simply gets right, without great fuss, the detail and proportion of things like the civil rights movement, student unrest, the stages of our Vietnam engagement."
Garry Wills, New York Review of ... Read more