A Companion to Post-1945 America [Paperback]

• Covers society and culture, people and movements, politics and foreign policy
• Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic
• Includes book review section on essential readings

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
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