America in Our Time

"America in Our Time" is a history of the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the fall of Richard Nixon. Focusing on the 1960s, the book debunks some of the myths about that much misremembered decade. Godfrey Hodgson pioneers the idea that in the 1950s a "liberal consensus" governed American politics, by which conservatives accepted the liberal domestic policy of the welfare state, while all but a few liberals shared the conservative foreign policy of Cold War "containment." The book shows in rich detail how that consensus was shattered by the converging blows of racial upheaval, the Vietnam War, and a pervasive crisis of authority in American society, all the way from the family to the White House, opening the way for a new conservatism. Hodgson has added an afterword that looks back at the events covered in the book from the perspective of almost thirty years since it was published.

ISBN 0691122881   Pages 576 ISBN13 9780691122885 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Princeton University Press   Weight (grammes) 685 Imprint Princeton University Press   Published in New Jersey Format Paperback   Height (mm) 203 Publication date 06 Sep 2005   Width (mm) 127 Library of Congress 2005048697   Spine width (mm) 33 DEWEY 973.92   Academic level Professional / Scholarly, Tertiary education DEWEY edition DC22

1		Hyperion		3
2		The 1940s		17
3		Abundance		48
4		The ideology of the liberal consensus		67
5		The presidency		99
6		The establishment		111
7		The media		134
8		The crisis		153
9		Black uprising		179
10		Black separatism		200
11		Vietnam : the beginning		225
12		Economic consequences		244
13		Fragmented consensus		263
14		The great schism		274
15		Telegraph Avenue, son of Madison Avenue		288
16		An invasion of centaurs		306
17		Triumph and failure of a cultural revolution		326
18		The end of consensus		353
19		The discovery of middle America		365
20		War, peace and two Americas		384
21		More movements than movement		401
22		The capture of the new majority		412
23		No crystal stair		429
24		Ideology and consensus		463
25		Puzzled and prospering		491

Praise for the previous edition: "A critique so stimulating and compelling that I can only say read it. -- Richard R. Lingeman, New York Times Praise for the previous edition: "[This book] simply gets right, without great fuss, the detail and proportion of things like the civil rights movement, student unrest, the stages of our Vietnam engagement. -- Garry Wills, New York Review of Books Praise for the previous edition: "Probably the most important general account yet written of America since World War II. -- Paul Starr, New Republic

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