Contributor
Maltz-Leca, Leora.
Imprint:San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, 2003.
Description320 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Harry S. Truman and the origins of the Truman Doctrine / Alonzo L. Hamby -- The Marshall Plan / George C. Marshall -- President Truman reports on the situation in Korea / Harry S. Truman -- Sputnik and the origins of the space race / William L. O'Neill -- Domestic fears and the red scare / Gary A. Donaldson -- The pursuit of happiness: American society and popular culture / John Patrick Diggins -- The struggle for black equality: Brown v. Board of Education / Harvard Sitkoff -- Living with the bomb / Susan Jonas, Marilyn Nissenson -- Camelot and the New Frontier / Norman L. Rosenberg, Emily S. Rosenberg -- The Berlin Wall / John F. Kennedy -- The Bay of Pigs Invasion / Adlai E. Stevenson -- The Cuban Missile Crisis / Raymond L. Garthoff -- LBJ and the Vietnam War / Thomas C. Reeves -- The feminine mystique / Betty Friedan -- UC Berkeley and the free speech movement / Mario Savio -- The Hippie revolution / Lewis Yablonsky -- The Civil Rights movement / Gary H. Koerselman -- The Chicano story / Francis DOnahue -- Feminism, lesbianism, and the gay rights struggle / David Farber -- The environment and the consumer / Frederick F. Siegel -- Born on the Fourth of July / Ron Kovic -- Nixon and the Watergate Affair / William H. Chafe -- The energy crisis and world order / Henry Kissinger -- Iran and the hostage crisis / George Lenczowski -- Reagan's foreign policy style / Michael Schaller -- The Iran-Contra Affair / from the Report of the Congressional Committees -- The rise of the Yuppies / Bruce J. Schulman -- The end of the Cold War / Mikhail Gorbachev -- Operation Desert Storm and America's post-Cold War Middle East policy / Robert E. Hunter.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
