Includes bibliographical references (pages 498-511) and index.
Contents:
Crossing the meridian -- Introduction: Good government -- Moving -- Pioneers -- The plowboy -- To secure these rights -- South by north -- The scarlet letter -- The endless frontier -- "To hell with Jews, Jesuits, and steamships!" -- Settlement -- The Swedish Jew -- The wheels of justice -- Yesterday -- Tomorrow -- Steps -- Confidence -- Gifts -- The cowboy -- Interlude -- Being Lincoln -- Patrimony -- A woman's world -- The great American breakthrough -- Blood -- The great regression -- Party lines -- The populist moment -- Stall -- The color line -- The old country -- The great regression.
Summary:
A history of the post-World War II decades traces the efforts of an activist federal government to guide the U.S. toward a realization of the American Dream, exploring the era's unprecedented economic, social, and environmental growth. --Publisher.
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