Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 472
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9⅜
978-1-5381-0445-3 • Hardback • August 2017 • $144.00 • (£111.00)
978-1-5381-0446-0 • Paperback • August 2017 • $73.00 • (£56.00)
978-1-5381-0447-7 • eBook • August 2017 • $69.00 • (£53.00)
Gary A. Donaldson is the Keller Foundation in American History at Xavier University of Louisiana. His other books include The First Modern Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon and the Election of 1960; Liberalism’s Last Hurrah: The Presidential Campaign of 1964; Truman Defeats Dewey; and America at War since 1945, among others. He lives in Mandeville, Louisiana.
Preface
Chapter 1: Postwar Adjustments
Chapter 2: The Early Cold War
Chapter 3: Affluence and Anxiety: America in the 1950s
Chapter 4: The Eisenhower Presidency
Chapter 5: Kennedy at Home and Abroad
Chapter 6: “We Shall Continue”
Chapter 7: The Nation in the 1960s
Chapter 8: Out of the 1960s and into the 1970s: The Agony of Change
Chapter 9: America in the 1970s: The Post-Watergate Years
Chapter 10: The Reagan Years
Chapter 11: The Kinder, Gentler Conservatism of George H. W. Bush
Chapter 12: Bill Clinton’s America
Chapter 13: America after the New Millennium
Chapter 14: The Second Bush and Obama: From the War on Terrorism to the Audacity of Hope
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author
“The third edition of Gary A. Donaldson’s The Making of Modern America is a splendid history of the country’s complex saga from its post-World War II adjustments, to the era of presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Donaldson punctuates each of his lucid and fast-paced chapters with a reading, a document, and questions—pedagogy that supplements or complicates his narrative. Students and their teachers will welcome Donaldson’s sure-handed analysis of America’s modern era—a time of momentous challenges to its status as the world’s richest and most innovative country.”
— John David Smith, Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“The Making of Modern America does an outstanding job of capturing postwar America’s Zeitgeist through a comprehensive but clear treatment of the era’s personalities, politics, and popular culture. The Making of Modern America’s clarity and judgment would fit well into the second half of the U.S. History survey, and the work would serve very well for an upper-level course on the United States since the end of World War II. Finally, an integrated postwar textbook for undergraduates!”
— Jeffrey P. Moran, Professor of History, University of Kansas
- New edition includes expanded coverage of the 1960s and the Vietnam War
- Each chapter includes selected primary sources
- Features a new chapter on the rise of Donald Trump and the effects of the tumultuous 2016 election