Depression to Cold War : A History of America from Herbert Hoover to Ronald Reagan.

Cover -- DEPRESSION TO COLD WAR -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- NOTES -- Preface -- NOTES -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 The Turn of the American Century -- BOOM AND BUST -- HOOVER AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION -- DEPRESSION POLITICS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2 A New Deal for the American People -- THE FIRST NEW DEAL -- ATTACKS FROM THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT -- THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF THE NEW DEAL -- THE CONSERVATIVE REACTION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3 The Slow Death of Versailles -- FOREIGN POLICY WITHOUT A RUDDER -- RELATIONS WITH LATIN AMERICA -- THE GROWTH OF ISOLATIONISM -- THROWING OFF THE SHACKLES OF ISOLATIONISM -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 4 Call to Arms -- FROM NEUTRALITY TO A "SHOOTING WAR" -- THE ROAD TO WAR -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 5 America at War -- WAGING WAR AT HOME AND ABROAD -- DEALING WITH ALLIES -- SHAPING THE POSTWAR WORLD -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 6 The Transition -- VICTORY ON BOTH FRONTS -- POSTWAR RECONSTRUCTION -- THE EMERGENCE OF THE COLD WAR -- POSTWAR POLITICS -- GLOBAL CHALLENGES -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 7 Navigating the Middle Road -- GENERAL IN THE WHITE HOUSE -- COMMUNISM AT HOME AND ABROAD -- "MIDDLE AMERICA" -- THE RISE OF THE PROTEST MOVEMENTS -- A REPUBLICAN FOREIGN POLICY -- EISENHOWER'S SECOND TERM -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 8 The Promise of Greatness -- A NEW GENERATION -- THE NEW FRONTIER AT HOME -- COLD WAR CRISES -- PRESIDENCY CUT SHORT -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 9 The Great Society -- PICKING UP THE PIECES -- LAUNCHING THE GREAT SOCIETY -- OVERSEAS INVOLVEMENT -- THE PROTEST MOVEMENTS GAIN MOMENTUM -- POLITICS OF DIVISION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 10 White House under Siege -- NIXON IN THE WHITE HOUSE -- NIXON AND VIETNAM -- DÉTENTE -- A CHANGE IN THE WIND -- TOWARD A NEW CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY -- ABUSE OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER -- UNDER SIEGE FROM SEVERAL QUARTERS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 11 A Time for Healing -- WAKING FROM THE "LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE".

THE END OF DÉTENTE -- JIMMY CARTER IN THE WHITE HOUSE -- THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN THE 1970S -- THE CARTER STYLE -- THE SLIPPERY SLOPE -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 12 The Conser vative Revolution -- ELECTION OF 1980 -- TOWARD THE NEW FEDERALISM -- THE NEW COLD WAR -- REPUBLICAN LANDSLIDE -- THE END OF THE COLD WAR -- TWILIGHT OF THE REAGAN YEARS -- NOTES -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors.

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