American Empire, 1945 - 2000: The Rise Of A Global Power, The Democratic Revolution At Home, Joshua B. Freman, c. 2012

American Empire, 1945 - 2000: The Rise Of A Global Power, The Democratic Revolution At Home, Joshua B. Freeman, c. 2012. 973.92FRE. 

Author: professor of history at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Introduction

Framing themes:

• the long period of sustained economic growth after WWII
• came to a sudden end during the 1970s
• a multifaceted struggle to make democracy more meaningful
• the relationship between the United States and the rest of the world
• turn of events in the wake of the 9/11 attacks

Prologue: E Pluribus Unum

Framing theme:

• when WWII ended, the US was much more a conglomeration of regions with distinctive forms of economic activity, politics and culture
• the Midwwest
• the Northeast
• the South
• the Southwest
• the West

Part I

Pax Americana
1945 - 1953

Chapter 1: Power and Politics
Chapter 2: Cold War
Chapter 3: Stalemate in Washington
Chapter 4: National Security State

Part II

The High Tide of Liberal Democraacy
1954 - 1974

Chapter 5: Suburban Natioin
Chapter 6: "We the Union Army"
Chapter 7: "Hur of Maximum Danger"
Chapter 8: The Democratic Revolution
Chapter 9: Apocalypse Now
Chapter 10: Sixties to Seventies, Dreams to Nightmares
Chapter 11: The End of the American Century

 

Part III

The Reesurrectonn of Corporate Capitalism
1975 - 1989

Chapter 12: The Landscape of Decline
Chapter 13: Te Politics of Stagnation
Chapter 14: The Corporate Revolution
Chapter 15: The Reagan Revolution
Chapter 16: Cold War Redux

Part IV

The New World Order
1990 - 2000

Chapter 17: "I'm Running Out of Demons"
Chapter 18: Triangulation
Chapter 19: Living Large

Epilogue: America After 9/11