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04273aam a2200493 i 4500 001 D709040696FD11ED8856CD373CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230118010046 008 210827t20222022nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021032756 020 $a 0367749769 020 $a 9780367749767 020 $a 0367749777 020 $a 9780367749774 035 $a (OCoLC)1268120088 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E743 $b .G27 2022 082 00 $a 320.973 $2 23 100 1 $a Magoc, Chris J., $d 1960- $e author. 245 12 $a A progressive history of American democracy since 1945 : $b American dreams, hard realities / $c Chris J. Magoc. 264 1 $a New York : $b Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, $c 2022. 300 $a ix, 351 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a A "people's war" and the dawn an "American century" -- Containing communism, advancing "the American system" -- Affluence and angst : the politics and culture of Cold War America -- Through the looking glass : discontent and rebellion in the fifties -- Let us begin : the promise of the early 1960s -- Mississippi to Saigon : the tragedy of Lyndon Johnson and the turning of the sixties -- "People of this generation" : the new left and the counter culture -- 1968 : the rupture -- Richard Nixon and the resilience of American democracy -- Confronting limits, turning right -- The Reagan revolution -- The end of nothing : history lurches on -- America under attack. 520 $a "A Progressive History of American Democracy Since 1945: American Dreams, Hard Realities offers a social, political, and cultural history of the United States since World War II. Unpacking a period of profound transformation unprecedented in the national experience, this text takes a synthetic approach to the history of the 1940s to the present day. It examines how Americans descended from a mid-century apogee of boundless expectations to the unsettling premise that our contemporary historical moment is fraught with a sense of crisis and national failure. The book's narrative explores the question of decline and more importantly, how the history of this transformation can point the way toward a recovery of shared national values. Chris J. Magoc also gives extensive treatments to the following: Grassroots movements that have expanded the meaning of American democracy, from the 1950s human rights struggle in the South, to contemporary movements to confront systemic racism and the existential crisis of climate change; The resilience of American democracy in the face of antidemocratic forces; The impacts of a decades-long economic transformation; The consequences of America's expanding global military footprint and national security state; Fracturing of a nation once held together by a post-war liberal consensus and broadly shared societal goals to an America facing an attack from within on empirical truth and democracy itself. This book will be of interest to students of modern U.S. history, social history and American Studies and general readers interested in recent U.S. history"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Social change $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Democracy $z United States $x History. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1945-1989. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1989- 651 0 $a United States $x History $y 1945- 651 0 $a United States $x Social conditions $y 1945- 650 7 $a Democracy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00890077 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Social change. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01122310 650 7 $a Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919811 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a Since 1945 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Magoc, Chris J., 1960- $t Progressive history of American democracy since 1945 $d New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 $z 9781003160595 $w (DLC) 2021032757 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117014525.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D709040696FD11ED8856CD373CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search