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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

COLD WAR POLITICS, 1945-1960

Truman and New Deal Liberalism
David McCullough, Truman (1992)
Alonzo Hamby, Liberalism and Its Challengers (1992)
Nelson Lichtenstein, 'From Corporatism to Collective Bargaining: Organized Labor and the Eclipse of Social Democracy in the Postwar Era' in Fraser and Gerstle eds, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order pp. 122-52
James T Patterson, Grand Expectations, ch 1-3, 6
Joseph Goulden, The Best Years, 1945-1950 (1976)
Michael Lacey, ed. The Truman Presidency (1989)
Steven Gillon, Politics and Vision: The ADA and American Liberalism, 1947-1985 (1987)
William Berman, The Politics of Civil Rights in the Truman Administration (1970)

Jonathan Bell, Liberal State on Trial (2004)
Anti-Communism
John Earl Haynes, Red Scare or Red Menace (1996)
Michael Heale, American Anti-communism: combattign the enemy within, 1830-1970 (1990)
Ellen Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1998)
Richard M Freeland,. The Truman doctrine and the origins of McCarthyism : foreign policy, domestic politics, and internal security, 1946-1948 (1985)
Michael Paul Rogin, The intellectuals and McCarthy: the radical specter (1967)
David M. Oshinsky, A Conspiracy So Immense: the world of Joe McCarthy (1983)
Robert Griffith, The Politics of Fear: Joseph R McCarthy and the Senate
Richard M. Fried, Nightmare in Red: the McCarthy era in perspective (1990)
Cold War Foreign Policy
Richard Crockatt, The Fifty Years War: The United States and the Soviet Union in World Politics, 1941-1991 (1995)
John L. Gaddis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (1997)
Robert Divine, Eisenhower and the Cold War (1981)
Republicans
James Patterson, Mr Republican: A Biography of Robert A. Taft (1972)
Jonathan Rieder, "The Rise of the Silent Majority" in Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle eds, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order (1989)
Liberals
Steven M. Gillon, Politics and Vision: the ADA and American Liberalism, 1947-1985
Ellen Schrecker, No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Intellectuals