Moving On: The American People Since 1945 (2nd Edition)

A comprehensive narrative survey of US History since WWII, this book focuses on the public life of the American people, and weaves together political, economic, foreign policy, and military history. It incorporates much of the new social, demographic, environmental, and cultural history of the period. Chapter titles include The Rise of the Cold War, The American People at Mid-century, The Politics of Consensus, New Frontiers, Great Society and Vietnam, Rebellion and Reaction, The World and Richard Nixon, The American People in the 1970s/1990s, and the Post-Cold War World. For the “baby boomers” and their descendants—this is the story of their America.