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List of Illustrations viii About the Contributors ix Introduction xiii PART I SOCIETY AND CULTURE 1 1 Family and Demography in Postwar America: A Hazard of New Fortunes? 3 Stephen Lassonde 2 The Power of Place: Race, Political Economy, and Identity in the Postwar Metropolis 20 Robert O. Self and Thomas J. Sugrue 3 American Religion Since 1945 44 James T. Fisher 4 Time Out: Leisure and Tourism 64 Susan G. Davis 5 Mass Media: From 1945 to the Present 78 Susan J. Douglas 6 What the Traffic Bares: Popular Music ???Back in the USA??? 96 Allen Tullos 7 The Visual Arts in Post–1945 America 113 Erika Doss 8 American Intellectual History and Social Thought Since 1945 134 Patrick N. Allitt PART II PEOPLE AND MOVEMENTS 153 9 American Political Culture Since 1945 155 Richard H. King 10 Hyphen Nation: Ethnicity in American Intellectual and Political Life 175 Matthew Frye Jacobson 11 Labor During the American Century: Work, Workers, and Unions Since 1945 192 Joshua B. Freeman 12 The Historiography of the Struggle for Black Equality Since 1945 211 Kevin Gaines 13 Postwar Women???s History: The ???Second Wave??? or the End of the Family Wage? 235 Nancy MacLean 14 Sexuality and the Movements for Sexual Liberation 260 Beth Bailey 15 A Movement of Movements: The Definition and Periodization of the New Left 277 Van Gosse 16 The Triumph of Conservatives in a Liberal Age 303 David L. Chappell 17 Modern Environmentalism 328 Ian Tyrrell PART III POLITICS AND FOREIGN POLICY 343 18 Beyond the Presidential Synthesis: Reordering Political Time 345 Julian E. Zelizer 19 McCarthyism and the Red Scare 371 Ellen Schrecker 20 The Politics of ???The Least Dangerous Branch???: The Court, the Constitution, and Constitutional Politics Since 1945 385 Mary L. Dudziak 21 The Cold War in Europe 406 Carolyn Eisenberg 22 Off the Beach: The United States, Latin America, and the Cold War 426 Greg Grandin 23 The United States and East Asia in the Postwar Era 446 James I. Matray 24 Washington Quagmire: US Presidents and the Vietnam Wars ???A Pattern of Intervention 464 David Hunt 25 The End of the Cold War 479 David S. Painter and Thomas S. Blanton 26 From the ???Atomic Age??? to the ???Anti–Nuclear Age???: Nuclear Energy in Politics, Diplomacy, and Culture 501 J. Samuel Walker PART IV ESSENTIAL READING 519 27 J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (1985) 521 Alan Brinkley 28 Charles Payne, I???ve Got the Light of Freedom (1995) 525 Linda Gordon 29 Samuel Lubell, The Future of American Politics (1952, 1956, 1965) 529 Nelson Lichtenstein 30 Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were (1992) 534 Elaine Tyler May 31 Alphonso Pinkney, The Myth of Black Progress (1984) 537 Robert E. Weems, Jr. 32 Garry Wills, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self–Made Man (1970) 540 Robert Westbrook 33 Victor Navasky, Naming Names (1980) 545 Jon Wiener 34 Edward Said, Orientalism (1978) 550 Melani McAlister Index 557