Fall 2008 Gary Land

HIST 469 AMERICA AS A WORLD POWER, 1939-PRESENT9:30-10:20 MWF

NH214

Credit Hours: 3Office: 122A Nethery HallTelephone: Office (269) 471-3511

Home (269) 461-6613E-Mail land@andrews.eduOffice Hours 3:30-6:00 p.m. T TH

and by appointmentCatalogue Description: An examination of issues of national consciousness

and cultural identity with major topics of the period such as World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam, the Civil Rights movement, Watergate, and various contemporary issues.

Course Objectives: Through the reading and classroom activities, students will 1. Understand the domestic and international aspects of the Cold War.2. Identify the major cultural and social changes of the period.3. Explain the shift from political liberalism to conservatism in the late twentieth century.4. Understand the development of the environmental movement and the issues that it addressed.

Textbooks: Robert Griffeth and Paula Baker, Major Problems in American History since 1945, Third Edition (Houghton Mifflin,2007).Steven Stoll, U.S. Environmentalism since 1945: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martins, 2007).

Requirements: 1. Reading: Students are expected to complete the reading assignments as listed on the schedule below.2. Reading Journal: Students are to write a daily reading journal for each assignment, as described below, and turn it in to the teacher at the beginning of class. Students may skip four of these journal entries without penalty. Each journal entry is worth a maximum of 10 points. For primary document readings, student are to write a typed ½ page (12-15 lines) interpretation that draw out a major theme supported by specific examples. For secondary source readings, students are to write a ½ page (12-15 lines) critique that identifies the major thesis of each work and analyzes its validity in light of the documents previously read. 3. Book Reviews: Each student will read two scholarly works (min. 250 pp.) of their choice addressing some aspect of American history since 1939 and write a 3-4 page critical review of each

work. See instructions for the review at the end of this syllabus and the book review rubric distributed by the instructor. The bibliography contained in this syllabus gives a list of suggested books, but students are to choose secondary studies rather than primary source works such as memoirs and advocacy books. All books chosen by the student must be approved in advance by the instructor. Reviews are due as indicated in the course schedule and must include notes, rough draft, final draft, and rubric.5. Document/Historiographical Analyses: Each student will write three 3-4 page analyses of primary source documents assigned in class. Further instructions will be given at least one week prior to the due date of each assignment as indicated in the course schedule. (50 pts each) 6. Article Analysis: Each student is to read two articles from the American Historical Review and two articles from the Journal of American History, as indicated on the course schedule, dealing with an aspect of the period covered in this course. For each article, students are to complete the article report form, and provide a print-out or photocopy of the article with the following elements marked and identified: thesis statement, subthesis statements (usually 3 or 4), and conclusion.7. Examinations: Each student will take the midterm and final examinations. (50 pts. each)

Grades: Reading Journal 20%Book Reviews: 100 pts. 20%Doc/Hist Analyses: 150 pts. 25%Article Analysis: 40 pts. 10%Examinations: 100 pts. 25%

Grades will be determined as follows:A 96-100%; A- 91-95%; B+ 86-90%; B 81-85%; B- 76-80%; C+ 71-75%; C 66-70%; C- 61-65%; D 50-60%; F 0-49%

Class Attendance: An attendance record will be taken each day. Students will lose class participation points if they are absent on a day that they are randomly chosen for questioning. As indicated in the Andrews University Bulletin (2008-09), p. 28, absences beyond 20% (8 class periods) will result in an F.

Missed Examinations: Examination may be turned in late only in the event of illness, with a medical excuse signed by a physician or nurse, or a death in the student’s immediate family. The student must contact the teacher regarding late examinations prior to the time that the examinations are due.

Extra Credit: Completing the course requirements with distinction will keep you occupied, for you should expect to spend about two hours in preparation for each class. I do not give extra-credit assignments.

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Academic Honesty: Please read the section on academic honesty in the Andrews University Bulletin. Any violations of this policy will result in a grade of 0 for the individual assignment.

Student E-mail: Should I need to send a message to individual students or the entire class, I will be using your Andrews University e-mail address. If you do not use this as your primary address, it is your responsibility to set up your AU account to forward messages to your primary address so that you will receive my messages. You are responsible for any unread or missed messages.

Disability Accommodations: If you qualify for accommodations under the American Disabilities Act, please see the instructor as soon as possible for referral and assistance in arranging such accommodations.

SCHEDULE

Date Lecture/Discussion Topic AssignmentAug. 25 Introduction 27 Isolationism and War 29 The Two-Front WarSept. 1 LABOR DAY: NO CLASS 3 The Home Front at War 5 Victory and Consequences 8 Origins of Postwar America Griffeth/Baker, 1-24 10 Postwar Politics Griffeth/Baker, 24-34

American Historical Review article reports due

12 Emergence of Containment Griffeth/Baker, 36-54 15 Korean War and Red Scare Griffeth/Baker, 54-79 17 Eisenhower and Modern

RepublicanismGriffeth/Baker, 81-97

19 Eisenhower and the Cold War

Griffeth/Baker, 97-124

22 Conformity and Materialism/The Rise of Environmentalism

Stoll, 1-26

24 Seeds of Rebellion/Wilderness Romanticism

Stoll, 31-53Book Review 1 due

26 Kennedy's Cold War Griffeth/Baker, 125-48 29 The New Frontier Griffeth/Baker, 148-71Oct. 1 Origins of the Struggle for

EqualityGriffeth/Baker, 173-92

3 The Second Reconstruction Griffeth/Baker, 193-209

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6 The Great Society Griffeth Baker, 212-25 8 The Stirring of

ConservatismGriffeth Baker, 225-42Document Analysis 1 due

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13 FALL RECESS: NO CLASS

15 The New Left Griffeth/Baker, 244-59 17 The Making of a Counter-

CultureGriffeth-Baker, 259-79

20 The End of Abundance Stoll, 54-71 22 Ecology and Society Stoll, 72-103 24 The Feminine Mystique Griffeth/Baker, 280-97 27 Women's Equality Griffeth/Baker, 297-321

Historiographical Analysis due

29 Kennedy, Johnson, and Vietnam

Griffeth/Baker, 324-38

31 The Vietnam War Ends Griffeth/Baker, 338-47Nov. 3 Nixon Conservatism/Green

PoliticsStoll, 104-26

5 The Watergate Crisis/Acting Locally

Stoll, 127-55

7 The Carter Years Griffeth/Baker, 350-72 10 Reagan Conservatism Griffeth/Baker, 372-92

Document Analysis 2 due 12 Reagan and Latin America Griffeth/Baker, 394-412 14 Reagan and the Soviet

UnionGriffeth/Baker, 413-433

17 Bush and the End of the Cold War

Griffeth/Baker, 435-51

19 Origins of the Culture Wars Griffeth/Baker, 452-68 21 Clinton and the

Redefinition of LiberalismGriffeth/Baker, 471-88

24 Clinton and the Post-Cold War World

Griffeth/Baker, 488-507Journal of American History reports due

26 THANKSGIVING BREAK: NO CLASS

28 THANKSGIVING BREAK: NO CLASS

Dec. 1 Bush's Compassionate Conservatism

Griffeth/Baker, 509-27

3 Terrorism and the Iraq War Griffeth/Baker, 527-42Book Review 2 due

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5 READING DAY: NO CLASS

8 10:00-12:00 a.m. FINAL EXAMINATION

Griffeth and Baker Bibliography Items in JWL

Chapter 1: THE ORIGINS OF POSTWAR AMERICA

Acuna, Rodolfo. Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (1981).Anderson, Karen Tucker. Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations, and the Status

of Women During World War II (1981).Berube, Allen. Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women In World

War Two (1990).Blum, John Morton. V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World

War II (1976).Brinkley, Alan. Liberalism and Its Discontents (1998).Capeci, Dominic J. The Harlem Riot of 1943 (1977).Daniels, Roger. Concentration Camps USA: Japanese Americans and World War II

(1971)Divine, Robert A. Roosevelt and World War II (1969)Fussell, Paul. Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (1989)Gluck, Sherna Berger. Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War and Social Change

(1987).Graham, Otis L., Jr. Toward a Planned Society: From Roosevelt to Nixon (1976)Irons, Peter. Justice at War (1983).Jeffries, John W. Wartime America: The World War II Home Front (1996)Kennedy, David M. Freedom from Fear: the American People in Depression and War,

1929-1945 (1999).Leigh, Michael. Mobilizing Consent: Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy,

1937-1947 (1986).Okihiro, Gary Y. Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II (1996).O'Neill, William L. A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in Word War II (1993).Perett, Geoffrey. Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph: The American People, 1939-1945

(1973).Pfeffer, Paula E. A. Philip Randolph (1990).Polenberg, Richard. War and Society: The United States, 1941-1945 (1972).Roeder, George H. The Censored War; American Visual Experience During World War

II (1993).Sherry, Michael S. In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s (1995).Terkel, Studs. "The Good War": An Oral History of World War II (1984).Winkler, Allan J. Home Front U.S.A.: America During World War II (1986).Wyman, David S. The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945

(1984).

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Chapter 2: THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR

Brands, H. W. The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War (1993)_____. Inside the Cold War: Loy Henderson and the Rise of the American Empire, 1918-

1961 (1991).Callahan, David. Dangerous Capabilities: Paul Nitze and the Cold War (1990).Davis, Lynn Etheridge. The Cold War Begins: Soviet-American Conflict over Eastern

Europe (1974)Eckes, Alfred E., Jr. A Search for Solvency: Bretton Woods and the International

Monetary System, 1941-1971 (1975)Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History (2005)_____. The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War (1987)Gardner, Lloyd C. Architects of Illusion: Men and Ideas in American Foreign Policy,

1941-1949 (1970)Hamby, Alonzo L. Man of the People: A Life of Harry S Truman (1991).Hogan, Michael J. The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of

Western Europe, 1947-1952 (1987).Holloway, David. Stalin and the Bomb (1994)Hunter, Allen, ed. Rethinking the Cold War (1998).Isaacson, Walter, and Evan Thomas. The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They

Made: Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy (1996). Kolko, Gabriel. The Politics of War: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1943-

1945 (1968).Kolko, Joyce, and Gabriel Kolko. The Limits of Power: The World and United States

Foreign Policy, 1945-1954 (1972).Leffler, Melvyn P. A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman

Administration, and the Cold War (1992).Mastny, Vojtech. The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years (1996)Offner, Arnold. Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953

(2002).Paterson, Thomas G. Meeting the Communist Threat: Truman to Reagan (1988)._____. On Every Front: The Making of the Cold War (1979)Schrecker, Ellen. Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1999).Walker, Martin. The Cold War: A History (1994)Weinstein, Allen. Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case (1997)_____, and Alexander Vassiliev. The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—The

Stalin Era (1999).Whitfield, Stephen J. The Culture of the Cold War (1991).Yergin, Daniel. Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War and the National Security

State (1977).Zubok, Vladislav, and Constantine Pleshakov. Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From

Stalin to Khrushchev (1996).

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Chapter 3: THE CONSUMER'S REPUBLIC: THE 1950S AND THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW ECONOMY OF MASS CONSUMPTION

Bailey, Beth L. From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America (1988).

Brandon, Barbara. The Passion of Ayn Rand (1986).Carter, Paul. Another Part of the Fifties (1983).Cohen, Lisbeth. A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar

America (2003).Coontz, Stephanie. The Way We Never Were: American Families and the nostalgia Trap

(1992).Davis, Kenneth C. Two-Bit Culture: The Paperbacking of America (1984).Doherty, Thomas. Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American

Culture (2003).Englehardt, Tom. The End of Victory Culture: Cold War and the Disilllusioning of a

Generation (1995).Fox, Richard Wightman. Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography (1986).Henrikson, Margot A. Dr. Strangelove's America: Society and Culture in the Atomic Age

(1997).Lhamon, W. T., Jr. Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American

1950s (1990).Marling, Karal Ann. As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s

(1990).May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (1988).Rose, Lisle A. The Cold War Comes to Main Street: America in 1950 (1999).Whitfield, Stephen J. The Culture of the Cold War (1991).

Chapter 4: JOHN F. KENNEDY, THE CUBN REVOLUTION, AND THE COLD WAR

Allison, Graham T. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971)Dobrynin, Anatoli. In Confidence (1995).Fursenko, Aledsandr, and Timothy Naftali. "One Hell of a Gamble": Khruschev, Castro,

and Kennedy, 1958-1964 (1997).Higgins, Trumbull. The Perfect Failure. (1987)Hillsman, Roger. To Move a Nation: The Politics of Foreign Policy in the Administration

of John F. Kennedy (1967).Kennedy, Robert F. Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (19969)Kkhruschev, Nikita. Khruschev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes (1990).LaFeber, Walter. Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (1983).May Ernest R., and Philip D. Zelikow, eds. The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House

During the Cuban Missile Crisis (2002).McNamara, Robert. Blundering into Disaster: Surviving the First Century of the Nuclear

Age (1986).Nash, Philip. The Other Missiles of October: Eisenhower, Kennedy and the jupiters,

1957-1963 (1997).

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Powers, Thomas. The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979).Smith, Gaddis. The Last Years of the Monroe Doctrine, 1945-1993 (1994).

Chapter 5: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY

Baldin, J. M., and Bruce A. Ackerman. What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said (2001).

Bartley, Numan V. The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and politics in the South During the 1950s (1969).

Belknap, Michal R. Federal law and Southern Order: Racial Violence and Constitutional Conflict in the Post-Brown South (1987).

Berman, Daniel M. It is So Ordered: The Supreme Court Rules on School Segregation (1966).

Branch, Taylor. At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 (2006)_____. Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-63

(1988)._____. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965 (1998).Brauer, Carl M. John F. Kennedy and the Second Reconstruction (1977).Cecelski, David S. Along Freedom Road: Hyde County, North Carolina, and the Fate of

Black Schools in the South (1994).Chafe, William H. Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the

Black Struggle for Freedom (1980).Donato, Ruben. The Other Struggle for Equal Schools: Mexican Americans During the

Civil Rights Era (1997).Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy

(2002).Eskew, Glen T. But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil

Rights Struggle (1997).Findlay, James F., Jr. Church People in the Struggle: The National Council of Churches

and the Black Freedom Movement, 1950-1970 (1993).Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern

Christian Leadership Conference (1986)._____. Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

(1978).Glen, John M. Highlander: No Ordinary School, 1932-1962 (1988).Graham, Hugh Davis. The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy

(1990). Kellar, William Henry. Make Haste Slowly: Moderates, Conservatives, and School

Desegregation in Houston (1999).Klarman, Michael J. From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the

Struggle for Racial Equality (2004)Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black

America's Struggle for Equality (1976).Marsh, Charles. God's Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights (1977).McMillin, Neil. The Citizens Council: Organized Resistance to the Second

Reconstruction (1971).

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Morris, Aldon. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change (1984).

O'Reilly, Kenneth. Nixon's Piano: Presidents and Racial Politics from Washington to Clinton (1995).

Patterson, James T. Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy (2001).

Payne, Charles M. I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (1995).

Pratt, Robert A. The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954-1989 (1994).

Steinberg, Stephen. Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy (1995).

Tushnet, Mark V. Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme court, 1936-1961 (1994).

Van Deburg, William L. New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975 (1992).

Wilson, William Julius. The Truly Disadvantaged: The inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy (1987).

Woodard, K. Komozi. A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black Power Politics (1999).

Chapter 6: THE GREAT SOCIETY AND THE POLITICS OF LIBERAL REFORM

Andrew, John., III. Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society (1998).Bernstein, Irving. Guns or Butter: The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson (1996).Block, Fred, et al. The Mean Season: The Attack on the Welfare State (1987). Burke, Vincent J., and Lee Burke. Nixon's Good Deed: Welfare Reform (1974).Caro, Robert A. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent (1900)._____. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (1982).Conkin, Paul. Big Daddy from the Pedernales: Lyndon Baines Johnson (1986).Dallek, Robert. Flawed Giant: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1961-1973 (1999)._____. Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960 (1991)._____. Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President (2004).Graham, Hugh Davis. The Uncertain Triumph: Federal Education Policy in the Kennedy

and Johnson Years (1984).Kotz, Nick. Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther king, Jr., and the

Laws that Changed America (2005).Levitan, Sar, and Robert Taggert. The Promise of Greatness (1976).Lieberman, Robert C. Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State

(1998).McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2001).Mittelstadt, Jennifer. From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of

Liberal Reform, 1945-1965 (2005).Sundquist, James L. Politics and Policy: The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Years

(1968).

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Unger, Irwin. The Best of Intentions: The Triumphs and Failures of the Great Society Under Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon (1996).

Warner, David C., ed. Toward New Human Rights: The Social Policies of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations (1977).

Chapter 7: THE NEW RADICALISM: POLITICS AND CULTURE IN THE 1960S

Anderson, Terry H. The Movement and the Sixties (1996).Andrew, John A., III. The Other Side of the Sixties: Young Americans for Freedom and

the Rise of Conservative Politics (1997).Brennan, Mary C. Turning Right in the Sixties (1995).Brick, Howard. Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s

(1998).Burner, David. Making Peace with the 60s (1996).Challmers, David Mark. And the Crooked Places Made Straight: The Struggle for Social

Change in the 1960s (1991).Crow, Thomas. The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent,

1955-69 (2005).Ellwood, Robert S. The Sixties Spiritual Awakening: American Religion Moving from

Modern to Postmodern (1995).Evans, Sara. Personal Politics: The Origins of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights

Movement and the New Left (1979).Farber, David R. Chicago '68 (1988).Farrell, James J. The Spirit of the Sixties: Making Postwar Radicalism (1997).Gitlin, Todd. The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (1987).Heineman, Kenneth J. Campus Wars: The Peace Movement at American State

Universities in the Vietnam Era (1994).Isserman, Maurice. If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the

New Left (1993)._____, and Michael Kazin. America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (2000).Jacobs, Ron. The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground (1997).Klatch, Rebecca E. A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s

(1999).Matusow, Allen J. The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s

(1984).McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2001).Oppenheimer, Mark. Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of

Counterculture (2003).Rorabaugh, W. J. Berkeley at War: The 1960s (1990)Rossinow, Douglas C. Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left

in America (1998).Roszak, Theodore. The Making of a Counter-Culture (1969).Sale, Kirkpatrick. SDS (1973).Steigerwald, David. The Sixties and the End of Modern America (1995).Suri, Jeremi. Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente (2003).

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Chapter 8: FROM THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE TO "SECOND WAVE" FEMINISM

Chafe, William. Women and Equality: Changing Patterns in American Culture (1977).Coontz, Stephanie. The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap

(1993).Critchlow, Donald T. Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal

Government in Modern America (1999)._____. Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade (2005).Cruikshank, Margaret. The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement (1992).Emilio, John, and Estelle B. Freedman. Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in

America (1988).Douglas, Susan J. Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media

(1994).Duggan, Lisa, and Nan D. Hunter. Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture

(1995).Farrell, Amy Erdman. Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular

Feminism (1998).Ferree, Myra, and Beth Hess. Controversy and Coalition: The New Feminist Movement

(1985).Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique (1963)._____. It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement (1976).Ginsberg, Faye. Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community

(1989).Harrison, Cynthia. On Account of Sex: The Politics of Women's Issues, 1945-1968

(1988).Hooks, Bell. Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism (1981).Jeansonne, Glen. Women of the Far Right: The Mothers' Movement and World War II

(1996).Luker, Kristin. Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood (1984).May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (1988).Mintz, Steven, and Susan Kellogg. Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American

Family Life (1988).Mohr, James. Abortion in America (1980).Morgan, Robin, ed. Sisterhood is Powerful (1970).Snitow, Ann, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson, eds., Powers of Desire: The

Politics of Sexuality (1983).Sommers, Christina Hoff. Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women

(1994).Umansky, Laluri. Motherhood Reconceived: Feminism and the Legacies of the Sixties

(1996).Wandersee, Winifred. On the Move: American Women in the 1970s (1988).

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Chapter 9: VIETNAM AND THE CRISIS OF AMERICAN EMPIRE

Anderson, David L. Facing My Lai: Moving Beyond the Massacre (1998).Appy, Christian G. Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam (1993).Berman, Larry. Lyndon Johnson's War: The Road to Stalemate in Vietnam (1989).Bradley, Mark Philip. Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial

Vietnam, 1919-1950 (2000).Braestrup, Peter. Big Story: How the American press and Television Reported and

Interpreted the Crisis of Tet 1968 in Vietnam and Washington (1983).Bundy, William P. A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon

Presidency (1998).Buzzanco, Robert. Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life (1999).Cohen, Warren I., and Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, eds. Lyndon Johnson Confronts the

World: American Foreign Policy, 1963-1968 (1994).Gardner, Lloyd C. Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam (1995).Heineman, Kenneth. Campus Wars: The Peace Movement at American State Universities

in the Vietnam Era (1993).Hendrickson, Paul. The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost

War (1996).Herring, George C. America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975

(1979).Hunt, Michael H. Lyndon Johnson's War: America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam

(1996).Kaiser, David. American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam

War (2000).Lind, Michael. Vietnam: The Necessary War (1999).Logevall, Fredrik. Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War

in Vietnam (1999).McNamara, Robert s., James G. Blight, and Robert K. Brigham. Argument Without End:

In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy (1999).Morris, Stephen J. Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia: Political Culture and the Causes of

War (1999).Neu, Charles E., ed. After Vietnam: Legacies of a Lost War (2000).Palmer, Bruce, Jr. The 25-year War: America's Military Role in Vietnam (1984).Shawcross, William. Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia

(1979).Sheehan, Neil. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988).Smith, R. B. An International History of the Vietnam War, 2 vols. (1983, 1985).Sorley, Lewis. A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and the Final Tragedy of

America's Last Years in Vietnam (1999).Summers, Harry G., Jr. On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War (1982).Van, Tien Dung. Our Great Spring Victory: An Account of the Liberation of South

Vietnam (1977).Young, Marilyn B. The Vietnam Wars: 1945-1990 (1991).

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Chapter 10: RONALD REAGAN AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA

Blumenthal, Sidney, and Thomas Byrne Edsall, eds. The Reagan Legacy (1988).Broder, David S. Changing of the Guard: Power and Leadership in America (1980).Brownlee, W. Elliot, and Hugh Davis Graham, eds. The Reagan Presidency: Pragmatic

Conservatism and its Legacies (2003).Cannon, Lou. President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime (1991).Gaddis, John Lewis. The United States and the End of the Cold War (1992).Glynn, Patrick. Closing Pandora's Box: Arms Races, Arms Control, and the History of

the Cold War (1992).Hodgson, Godfrey. The World Turned Right Side Up: A history of the Conservative

Ascendancy in America (1996).Johnson, Haynes. Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years (1991).LeoGrande, William M. our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America,

1977-1992 (1998).McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2001).Mills, Nicolaus. The Triumph of Meanness: America's War Against Its Better Self (1997).Morris, Edmund. Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (1999).Noonan, Peggy. What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era (1990).Parmet, Herbert S. George Bush: The Life of a Lone Star Yankee (1997).Phillips, Kevin. The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in

the Reagan Aftermath (1990).Piven, Frances Fox, and Richard A. Cloward. The Breaking of the American Social

Compact (1997).Rosenstiet, Tom. Strange Bedfellows: How Television and the Presidential Candidates

Changed American Politics, 1992 (1993).Stockman, David A. The Triumph of Politics: How the Reagan Revolution Failed (1986).Wills, Garry. Reagan's America: Innocents at Home (1987).

Chapter 11 THE PROMISES AND PERILS OF A NEW ECONOMY

Brown, John Seely, and Paul Duguid. The Social Life of Information (2002).Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001).Frank, Thomas. One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the

End of Economic Democracy (2000).Friedman, Thomas L. The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization

(2000)._____. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (2005).Kass, Leon. Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics

(2002).Lewis, Michael. The New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story (2000).Lowenstein, Roger. Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and its Undoing (2004).McCloskey, Donald. Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic History

(1993).

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Pellow, David N., and Lisa Dun-Hee Park. The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy (2003).

Ritzer, George. The McDonaldization of Society: An Investigation into the Changing Character of Contemporary Social Life (1996).

Robbins-Roth, Cynthia. From Alchemy to IPO: The Business of Biotechnology (2001).Schiller, Robert J. Irrational Exuberance (2001).Sennett, Richard. The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in

the New Capitalism (2001).Stiglitz, Joseph E. Globalization and Its Discontents (2003).

Chapter 12: E PLURIBUS UNUM: RACE AND ETHNICITY IN A CHANGING WORLD

Archdeacon, Thomas J. Becoming American: An Ethnic History (1983).Barkan, Elliott R., ed. A Nation of Peoples: A Sourcebook on America's Multicultural

Heritage (1999).Borjas, George. Friends or Strangers? The Impact of Immigrants on the U.S. Economy

(1990).Daniels, Roger. Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American

Life (1990).Dinnerstein, Leonard, Roger L. Nichols, and David M. Reimers. Natives and Strangers:

Blacks, Indians and Immigrants in America (1990).Gitlin, Todd. The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America is Wracked by Culture

Wars (1995).Hacker, Andrew. Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal (1992).Hollinger, David A. Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism (1995).Ignatieff, Michael. Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism (1994).Jacobson, Mathew Frye. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the

Alchemy of Race (1998).Lind, Michael. The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth

American Revolution (1995).Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society

(1992).Steinberg, Stephen, ed. The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America (1990).Suro, Roberto. Strangers Among Us: How Latino Immigration Is Transforming America

(1998).Takaki, Ronald. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (1993).Tichenor, Daniel J. Dividing Line: The Politics of Immigration Control in America

(2002).Vecoli, Rudolph J., ed. Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (1995).

Chapter 13: POLITICS AND POLITICAL CULTURE IN "POSTMODERN" AMERICA

Dionne, E. J. Why Americans Hate Politics: The Death of the Democratic Process (1992).

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Greider, William. Who Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy (1992).

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall, and Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. The Interplay of Influence: News, Advertising, Politics and the Internet, 3rd ed. (1992).

Johnson, Haynes. The Best of Times: America in the Clinton years (2001).Kurtz, Howard. Spin Cycle: How the White House and the Media Manipulate the News

(1998).Putnam, Robert d. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

(2000).Skocpol, Theda. Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn Against Government

(1997).West, Darrell M. Air Wars: Television Advertising in Election Campaigns, 1952-1992

(1993).

Chapter 14: NEW WORLD ORDER

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(1997).Halberstam, David. War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals (2002).Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri. Empire (2000).Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

(1996).Ignatieff, Michael. The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience

(1998).Johnson, Chalmers. The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the

Republic (2004).National Commission on Terrorist Attacks. The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of

the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (2004).Nye, Joseph S. Soft Power: The Means to Succeed in World Politics (2004).Ohmae, Kenichi. The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlocked Economy

(1990).Tucker, Robert W., and David C. Hendrickson. The Imperial Temptation: The New

World Order and America's Purposes (1992).

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