Companion to Post-1945 America

Jean-Christophe Agnew is Professor of American Studies and History at Yale University. He is the author of Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought (1989) and of a number of articles on the history of market society and consumer culture. Roy Rosenzweig is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History and director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. He is the author, co-author, and co-editor of a number of books, including The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life (1998), which won the Historic Preservation Book Prize for Best Book of 1998.

“These 34 valuable essays review the current state of historical research on a wide range of issues and contribute to the scholarly study of US history following World War II. The issues reflect the diverse directions that historical inquiry has recently taken … This book will help define the new historiography: highly recommended.” Choice“This is a gem of a book that will fascinate anyone whose interest in recent US history goes beyond nostalgia and personalities. Broad enough to cover both tourism and the Cold War, it will quickly become required reading for scholars of the period.” Michael Kazin, Georgetown University and co-author, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s

• List of Illustrations viiiAbout the Contributors ixIntroduction xiiiPART I SOCIETY AND CULTURE 11 Family and Demography in Postwar America: A Hazard of New Fortunes? 3Stephen Lassonde2 The Power of Place: Race, Political Economy, and Identity in the Postwar Metropolis 20Robert O. Self and Thomas J. Sugrue3 American Religion Since 1945 44James T. Fisher4 Time Out: Leisure and Tourism 64Susan G. Davis5 Mass Media: From 1945 to the Present 78Susan J. Douglas6 What the Traffic Bares: Popular Music “Back in the USA” 96Allen Tullos7 The Visual Arts in Post-1945 America 113Erika Doss8 American Intellectual History and Social Thought Since 1945 134Patrick N. AllittPART II PEOPLE AND MOVEMENTS 1539 American Political Culture Since 1945 155Richard H. King10 Hyphen Nation: Ethnicity in American Intellectual and Political Life 175Matthew Frye Jacobson11 Labor During the American Century: Work, Workers, and Unions Since 1945 192Joshua B. Freeman12 The Historiography of the Struggle for Black Equality Since 1945 211Kevin Gaines13 Postwar Women’s History: The “Second Wave” or the End of the Family Wage? 235Nancy MacLean14 Sexuality and the Movements for Sexual Liberation 260Beth Bailey15 A Movement of Movements: The Definition and Periodization of the New Left 277Van Gosse16 The Triumph of Conservatives in a Liberal Age 303David L. Chappell17 Modern Environmentalism 328Ian TyrrellPART III POLITICS AND FOREIGN POLICY 34318 Beyond the Presidential Synthesis: Reordering Political Time 345Julian E. Zelizer19 McCarthyism and the Red Scare 371Ellen Schrecker20 The Politics of “The Least Dangerous Branch”: The Court, the Constitution, and Constitutional Politics Since 1945 385Mary L. Dudziak21 The Cold War in Europe 406Carolyn Eisenberg22 Off the Beach: The United States, Latin America, and the Cold War 426Greg Grandin23 The United States and East Asia in the Postwar Era 446James I. Matray24 Washington Quagmire: US Presidents and the Vietnam Wars –A Pattern of Intervention 464David Hunt25 The End of the Cold War 479David S. Painter and Thomas S. Blanton26 From the “Atomic Age” to the “Anti-Nuclear Age”: Nuclear Energy in Politics, Diplomacy, and Culture 501J. Samuel WalkerPART IV ESSENTIAL READING 51927 J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (1985) 521Alan Brinkley28 Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (1995) 525Linda Gordon29 Samuel Lubell, The Future of American Politics (1952, 1956, 1965) 529Nelson Lichtenstein30 Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were (1992) 534Elaine Tyler May31 Alphonso Pinkney, The Myth of Black Progress (1984) 537Robert E. Weems, Jr.32 Garry Wills, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (1970) 540Robert Westbrook33 Victor Navasky, Naming Names (1980) 545Jon Wiener34 Edward Said, Orientalism (1978) 550Melani McAlisterIndex 557