The human tradition in America since 1945 / edited by David L. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, David L., 1946-

Series:

Human tradition in America ; no. 18.

The human tradition in America ; no. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

United States--History--1945---Biography.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Del. : SR Books, 2003.

Contents:

Introduction: Global Power and Social Revolution since 1945 / David L. Anderson xi

I Cold War Globalism and the Rise of the National Security State

1 John J. McCloy: Architect of the American Century / Priscilla Roberts 3

2 General Andrew Jackson Goodpaster: Managing National Security / William B. Pickett 25

3 Wesley Fishel and Vietnam: "A Special Kind of Friend," / Joseph G. Morgan 47

II Domestic Reactions to American Globalism

4 Father Daniel J. Berrigan: The FBI's Most Wanted Peace Activist / Joseph A. Palermo 71

5 Jerry McCuistion: POW Wife and Public Activist / Joseph A. Fry 95

6 Clement J. Zablocki: The Politics of Personality and Presidential Power / Stephen M. Leahy 113

III Social Change in the Cold War Era

7 Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Cold War Politics of Gender / Geoffrey S. Smith 131

8 Daisy Bates: The Struggle for Racial Equality / David L. Anderson 151

9 Mary Crow Dog: A Story of the American Indian Movement and the United States / Michelle Mannering 171

10 Alix Kates Shulman: Novelist, Feminist, Twentieth-Century Woman / Charlotte Templin 189

IV Politics in Cold War America

11 Jacob M. Arvey: Post-World War II Political Reform / Roger Biles 207

12 Charles W. Thayer: Purged from the State Department / Robert Dean 227

13 John Dean: The Watergate Scandal / Keith W. Olson 247

14 David Stockman: Reagan's Revolutionary / Gil Troy 267.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0842029427

0842029435

OCLC:

51983549