| Edition |
[Book Club edition]. |
| Description |
2 volumes (1640 pages) ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
v. 1. Rendezvous with destiny, 1932-1941 -- The cruelest year -- Depression montage -- Roosevelt! -- Portrait of an American: Eleanor -- Stirrings -- Mid-thirties montage -- The Roosevelt Referendum -- Portrait of an American: stockbroker Richard Whitney -- The conservative Phoenix -- Late thirties montage -- A shadow of primitive terror -- Portrait of an American: Norman Thomas -- Through the night with a light from above -- Montage: the last of prewar America -- America on the brink -- Sacrifice and transformation, 1941-1950 -- Counterattack -- Pacific montage -- The Home Front -- Home Front montage -- Lilacs in the dooryard -- ETO montage -- A new world, under a new sun -- Portrait of an American : The Redhead -- The fraying flags of triumph -- Postwar montage -- Life with Harry -- A little touch of Harry in the night -- Late forties montage -- The age of suspicion -- Portrait of an American: Edward Roscoe Murrow -- Into the abyss -- Early fifties montage -- Sowing the wind, 1951-1960 -- A house divided -- Right turn -- Montage: the early Eisenhower years -- What was good for General Motors -- Portrait of an American : Norma Jean Baker -- v. 2. Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman -- Montage: the mid-fifties -- With all deliberate speed --- The pursuit of happiness -- Montage: Eisenhower at flood tide -- Beep beep -- Portrait of an American: The Edsel --The crusade falters -- Late fifties montage -- Tattoo for the General -- Reaping the whirlwind, 1961-1968 -- A new generation of Americans -- Montage: the early sixties -- Now the trumpet summoned us again -- Portrait of an artist: Peter Carl Goldmark -- Don't let it be forgot -- Montage: JFK/LBJ -- The long arm -- A dream of greatness, and disenchantment -- Montage: the Johnson years -- Up against the wall -- Portrait of an American: Karl Hess III -- The year everything went wrong -- Montage: the late sixties -- Nixon, after all, 1969-1972 -- The rise of the Silent Majority -- Portrait of an American: Benjamin McLane Spock, M.D. -- Nattering nabobs -- Early seventies montage -- The divided states of America -- Portrait of an American: Ralph Nader -- Pride goeth -- Epilogue: echoes. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: volume 2, pages [1631]-1640. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
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United States -- History -- 1945-
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