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BIBLIOGRAPHY

The 1920s
Great Depression and the New Deal
World War II
Segregation in the South
American society and the Cold War
Cold War Politics, 1945-1960
1960s: Culture and Society
The Civil Rights Movement
Politics, 1960-1980
Politics since 1980
Society and Culture since 1980
Historiographical Issues
Background Reading
Internet Resources

AMERICAN SOCIETY AND THE COLD WAR

General Interpretations
William O'Neill, American High: Years of Confidence, 1945-1960 (1986)
Marty Jezer, The Dark Ages: Life in the United States, 1945-1960 (1982)
Morris Janowitz, The Last Half-Century: Societal Change and Politics in America (1978)
Lary May, ed. Recasting America: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cold War (1989)

Allan Winkler, Life Under a Cloud: American Anxiety about the Atom (1993)
Paul Boyer, By the Bomb's Early Light: Ame
rican Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age (1994)
Culture
Scott Lucas, Freedom's War: The US Crusade Against the Soviet Union, 1945-1956 (1999)
Sam B. Girgus, ed., The American Self: Myth, Ideology, and Popular Culture (1981)
Paul Friedlander, Rock and Roll: A Social History (1996)
Susan J. Douglas, Listening in: Radio and the American Imagination from Amos 'N' Andy and Edward R. Murrow to Wolfman Jack and Howard Stern (1999)

Tom Englehart, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation (1995)

Karal Ann Marling, As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s (1994)
Women and the Family
William Chafe, The American Woman
Susan Lynn, Progressive Women in Conservative Times
Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the post-war era (1999)
Cynthia Harrison, On Account of Sex: The Politics of Women's Issues, 1945-68
William Chafe, The Paradox of Change: American Women in the Twnetithe Century (1991)
Susan Hartman, The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s (1982)
Landon Jones, Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation (1980)

James Gilbery, A Cycle of Outrage: America's Reaction to the Juvenile Delinquent in the 1950s (1986)
Intellectual Life
Neil Jumonville, Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America (1991)
Douglas Tallack, Twentieth-Century America: The Intellectual and Cultural Context (1991)
Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the 1950s (1960)