A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America

By Beth L. Bailey, William Henry Chafe, Harvard Sitkoff

Book Overview

This comprehensive, widely-used anthology offers a dynamic assessment of the major issues in post-World War II American history. In this second edition, the editors include contemporary articles on the Cold War and the 1960s and present new discussions of the counterculture, the New Right, conservatism under the Reagan administration, the new poverty, and the politics of the 1950s and 1960s.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195042042
• ISBN13: 9780195042047
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.9" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Valuable Resource

In this anthology, Chafe and Sitkoff have collected a number of articles that are critical in understanding the major issues in American history during the past 50 years. Despite the broad thematic scope of essays--ranging from post-war foreign policy to the creation of an "urban underclass" during the Reagan administration--the organization and careful editing of the book provide the reader with a clear understanding of America's recent sociopolitical transitions. The lucid and well-written individual essays, submitted by leading historians and well-known political figures, work particularly well alongside the documents and commentaries they are paired with.