Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Reporting America	Alistair Cooke	"This year marks the centenary of the birth of Alistair Cooke, the greatest of all twentieth century reporters of life in America to the rest of the world. To celebrate, we are publishing Reporting A…	OL13696474W
Then everything changed	Jeff Greenfield	The New York Times bestseller from Jeff Greenfield, the renowned CBS News senior political correspondent and veteran of CNN and ABC news, offering an alternative history of America. These things are …	OL15414395W
The golden age is in us	Alexander Cockburn	This is a history, a diary, a dossier of a radical's working life and circumstances among some of the most momentous years of the century. Its pages echo with the crash of rubble, of the old regimes …	OL15843022W
Outside the Gates of Eden	Peter Bacon Hales	The trajectory of American popular culture after the first (atomic detonations) and second (Levittown) steps.	OL17323036W
American mojo, lost and found	Peter D. Kiernan	Argues that America's might lies in its middle class and calls for a focused directive to reinvigorate the class in order to return the nation to greatness. Award-winning author Peter D. Kiernan foc…	OL17875707W
The unfinished journey	William Henry Chafe	Considering both the paradoxes and the possibilities of postwar America, William H. Chafe portrays the significant cultural and political themes that have colored our country's past and present, incl…	OL1912830W
In our times	Emily S. Rosenberg,Norman L. Rosenberg	In Our Times: America Since World War II, Seventh Edition is a revised and updated version of this widely used book, which has been popular in both survey courses in U.S. history and in more speciali…	OL1924160W
The gifted generation	David R. Goldfield	A history of the post-World War II decades traces the efforts of an activist federal government to guide the U.S. toward a realization of the American Dream, exploring the era's unprecedented economi…	OL19726216W
The year of indecision, 1946	Kenneth Weisbrode	An account of Truman's first year in office argues that the tensions and issues that the nation faced are similar to those America faces today.	OL20023377W
The coldest winter	David Halberstam	Up until now, the Korean War has been the black-hole of modern American history. This book changes that, giving readers a masterful narrative of the political decisions and miscalculations on both si…	OL20877044W
Making of Modern America	Gary A. Donaldson	1 online resource	OL21155277W
USA and the Cold War in Asia, 1945-1975	Derrick Murphy,Mike Wells	74 p. ; 25 cm	OL27782427W
America's Longest War	George C. Herring	The author portrays American participation in the Vietnam War as the logical culmination of the containment policy that began under Harry Truman in the late 1940's. Also his portrayal of the complex …	OL2916071W
Dark side of the moon	Gerard J. De Groot	This text reveals how NASA cashed in on the Americans' thirst for heroes in an age of discontent and became obsessed with putting men in space. It explains why the American space program has been cau…	OL2973961W
Legacy of Ashes	Tim Weiner	Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world; why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse…	OL3236899W
The war managers	Douglas Kinnard	Tells the story of the Second Indochinese War from the perspectives of the United States Army General Officers who commanded there. This is not a history, nor is it a personal memoir; it is an attemp…	OL4093044W
The Sixties	Arthur Marwick	"A monumental study of social and political change in Europe and the United States during this period of cultural revolution. Paying particular attention to the impact of the sixties on the lives of …	OL480776W