A Companion to Post-1945 America is an original collection of 34 essays by key scholars on the history and historiography of Post-1945 America.
- 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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