US Since 1940 Bibliography
Overviews
Nell Painter, Standing at Armageddon (New York : W.W. Norton, c1987)
William Chafe, The Unfinished Journey (New York : Oxford University Press, 1999)
John Patrick Diggins, The Proud Decades (New York : Norton, 1989)
Godfey Hodgson's America in Our Time (Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1976)
David Halberstam's The Fifties (New York : Fawcett Columbine, 1994)
Political Economies of the New Deal
William Leuchtenberg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal (, New York, Harper & Row,1963)
Arthur Schlesinger,The Age of Roosevelt (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957-1960)
Richard Hofstadter Age of Reform (( New York : Vintage, 1955)
Theda Skocpol, "Political Response to Capitalist Crisis: Neo-Marxist Theories of the State and the Case of the New Deal," Politics and Society 10 (1980), pp. 157-201
Alan Brinkley,The End of Reform (New York: Alfred A, Knopf, 1995)
Ira Katznelson, "Was the Great Society a Lost Opportunity?" in Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press,1989)
Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press,1989)
World War to Cold War
Stephen Ambrose, The Rise to Globalism (New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1997)
Walter LaFeber, America, Russia and the Cold War (New York, Wiley, 1967)
The Origins of the Cold War and Anti-Communism
Richard Freeland, The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism (New York : New York University Press, 1985)
John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment (New York : Oxford University Press, 1982)
Melvyn Leffler, A Preponderance of Power (Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1992)
Herbert Feis, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin (Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1957)
___________, Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference (Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1960)
___________, From Trust to Terror (New York, Norton, 1970)
Martin Herz, Beginnings of the Cold War (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1966)
John L. Snell, Illusion and Necessity (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1963)
John Spanier, American Foreign Policy Since World War II (Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, 1995.).
William A. Williams in The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Cleveland, World Pub. Co., 1959)
Gar Alperovitz, Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1965)
____________, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (New York : A. A. Knopf, 1995)
Joyce and Gabriel Kolko, The Limits of Power: The World and US Foreign Policy (New York, Harper & Row, 1972)
The Politics of Consensus and Post-War Culture
Alonzo Hamby, Beyond the New Deal (New York: Columbia University Press, 1973)
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. The Vital Center (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1949)
Louis Hartz's Liberal Tradition in America (New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1955)
Daniel Boorstin's Genius of American Politics (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1953)
Richard Pells, The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age (New York : Harper & Row, 1985)
Larry May (Ed), Recasting America : Culture and Politics in the Age of Cold War (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1989)
Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963)
Elaine Tyler May, in Homeward Bound: American Families in the Postwar Era (New York : Basic Books, 1988)
David Halberstam's The Fifties (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1993)
Civil Rights, Liberation Movements, the New Left and Vietnam
Allen Matusow, The Unraveling of America (New York : Harper & Row, 1986)
Aldon Morris' The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement (New York : Free Press, 1984)
Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters:America in the King Years, 1959-1963 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988)
____________, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965 (New York : Simon & Schuster, 1998)
William Chafe, Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom (New York : Oxford University Press, 1980)
Manning Marable, Race, Reform and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1982 (Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1991)
Harvey Sitkoff, The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1992 (New York : Hill and Wang, 1993)
Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton, Black Power (New York, Random House, 1967)
Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1967)
Bobby Seale, Seize the Time (New York, Random House, 1970)
Michael Eric Dyson, Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995)
Peter Goldman, The Death and Life of Malcolm X (New York, Harper & Row, 1973)
Revolution (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1981).
Sara Evans, Personal Politics (New York : Vintage Books, 1979)
bell hooks, in Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Boston, MA : South End Press, 1984)
David Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique : The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism (Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, 1998)
David Farber, The Sixties (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1994)
David P. Szatmary Rockin' in Time: A Social History of Rock and Roll (4th Edition) New York: Prentice Hall (August 24, 1999)
The Rise of Postwar Conservatism and Disillusionment
Garry Wills, Reagan's America (New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1988)
Jonathan Rieder, "The Rise of the Silent Majority" in Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press,1989)
Thomas Byrne Edsall, with Mary Edsall, Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics. (New York : Norton, 1992)
Alan Brinkley, Liberalism and its Discontents (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2000)