The uncertain power : a political history of the United States since 1929
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The uncertain power : a political history of the United States since 1929
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1990
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Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
This is a short political history of the United States since 1929, focusing on the national political agenda. The book deals with civil rights, the anti-communist crusade, social reform, foreign policy and includes a discussion of military strategy in World War II, concentrating on those arenas that were to effect the development of the Cold War.
Table of Contents
- The Great Crash as prologue 1929-32
- the New Deal 1933-40
- the United States and World War II 1939-45
- the politics of reconversion 1945-52
- the origins of the Cold War 1945-52
- years of affluence 1953-60
- foreign policy in the Eisenhower era 1953-60
- towards a great society 1961-68
- foreign policy in the Democratic years 1961-68
- years of stagnation 1969-80
- from detente to national malaise 1969-80
- the new Republican era 1981-90.
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