The Many Sides of America: 1945 - Present,9780155020771

The Many Sides of America: 1945 - Present

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ISBN13: 9780155020771
ISBN10: 0155020773
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Pub. Date: 1996-01-02
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

This primary source reader provides selections from the end of World War II to the present. Coverage includes a discussion of civil rights, anti-Communism, cultural homogeneity (with selections from Reisman, Whyte, and Herberg), consumer protection and environmental movements (with selections from Nader and Carson), the Vietnam War, and the creationist vs. evolutionist debate in public schools. Contemporary coverage includes the culture wars, analyses of California's Proposition 187, and the Republican "Contract With America."

Table of Contents

Preface v
1945-1952
1(42)
Introduction
1(2)
The Atomic Age Begins
3(5)
The Novelty of Atomic Energy
3(5)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
The United States Develops a Cold War Ideology
8(9)
The Cold War to Be a Moral Crusade
8(3)
Harry S. Truman
NSC-68, The Emergence of a National Security State
11(6)
Race Relations
17(12)
National Civil Rights Commission, A Program of Action
17(6)
Executive Order Desegregating the Armed Forces
23(1)
Harry S Truman
The Desegregation of the Armed Forces in Korea
24(5)
Domestic Anticommunism
29(14)
The Threat of Domestic Communism
29(4)
Joseph McCarthy
The House Un-American Activities Committee, Naming Names
33(8)
Suggestions for Further Reading
41(2)
1953-1962
43(56)
Introduction
43(2)
School Desegregation
45(8)
The Supreme Court, Brown v. Board of Education
45(4)
South Carolina Enacts ``Interposition''
49(4)
Foreign Policy
53(8)
The Policy of Massive Retaliation
53(3)
John Foster Dulles
Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, A Warning
56(5)
Cultural Homogeneity
61(10)
The ``Other-Directed'' Person
61(2)
David Reisman
How to Cheat on Personality Tests
63(6)
William H. Whyte, Jr.
American ``Faith in Faith''
69(2)
Will Herberg
Civil Rights
71(11)
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
71(4)
E. D. Nixon
Rosa Parks
The Sit-Ins Begin
75(7)
Franklin McCain
The Cuban Missile Crisis
82(8)
The Threat We Face in Cuba
82(4)
John F. Kennedy
What Did We Learn?
86(4)
I. F. Stone
Organized Public School Prayer Banned
90(4)
The Supreme Court, Engel v. Vitali
90(4)
College Students Mobilize
94(5)
The Port Huron Statement
94(3)
Suggestions for Further Reading
97(2)
1963-1970
99(58)
Introduction
99(2)
Civil Rights
101(18)
The Philosophy of Non-Violence
101(6)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Ballot or the Bullet
107(5)
Malcolm X
Why We Need the Vote
112(3)
Fannie Lou Hamer
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
115(4)
The War on Poverty
119(10)
The Invisible Poor
119(5)
Michael Harrington
The War on Poverty
124(5)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Vietnam
129(7)
Why Are We in Viet-Nam?
129(3)
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Pentagon Papers, We Must Avoid Humiliation
132(4)
The Reemergence of Feminism
136(7)
The Problem That Has No Name
136(4)
Betty Friedan
National Organization for Women (NOW), Bill of Rights
140(1)
The Redstockings Manifesto, Men Are the Source of Our Oppression
141(2)
The Counterculture
143(5)
Consciousness III
143(5)
Charles Reich
The Rise of Consumer and Environmental Protection
148(9)
Unsafe at Any Speed
148(3)
Ralph Nader
And No Birds Sing
151(4)
Rachel Carson
Suggestions for Further Reading
155(2)
1971-1980
157(48)
Introduction
157(2)
President Nixon's Foreign Policy
159(7)
A Plan to End the War: ``Vietnamization''
159(3)
The United States and China Talk, The Shanghai Communique
162(4)
The Vietnam Crisis Continues
166(13)
Veterans Remember
166(7)
Congressional Hearing on Amnesty for Draft Evaders, 1972
173(6)
Watergate
179(4)
Articles of Impeachment of President Nixon
179(4)
Gender Matters
183(10)
America Needs an Equal Rights Amendment
183(4)
Gloria Steinem
The Supreme Court Legalizes Early Abortion
187(6)
Roe V. Wade
The Camp David Accords
193(3)
Jimmy Carter Mediates Peace Between Israel and Egypt
193(3)
Environmental Crises
196(9)
Toxic Waste: What Happened at Love Canal?
196(4)
The Press and the Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island
200(3)
Suggestions for Further Reading
203(2)
1981-1990
205(62)
Introduction
205(2)
The Origin of the ``Reagan Doctrine''
207(4)
Totalitarianism vs. Authoritarianism
207(4)
Jeane Kirkpatrick
The Conservative Social Agenda
211(12)
The Forming of The Moral Majority
211(7)
Jerry Falwell
The Need for Moral Reform
218(5)
Ronald Reagan
Creationism vs. Evolutionism: The Arkansas Case
223(7)
The Arkansas Law on ``Balanced'' Teaching
223(4)
The Federal Judge's Ruling Overturning the Law
227(3)
Affirmative Action
230(8)
Hearing on Constitutional Amendment
230(8)
The Iran-Contra Hearings
238(10)
Oliver North vs. George Mitchell
238(10)
The AIDS Crisis
248(10)
AIDS Strikes a Popular Movie Star
248(10)
Randy Shilts
The Legalization of Drugs, Pro and Con
258(9)
For Legalization
258(2)
Robert Sweet
Against Legalization
260(5)
William Bennett
Suggestions for Further Reading
265(2)
1991-1994
267(56)
Introduction
267(2)
The Gulf War
269(4)
It Was a Famous Victory
269(2)
George Bush
The Coward's Air War
271(2)
Colman McCarthy
The Savings and Loan Crisis
273(6)
Where Did All the Money Go?
273(6)
Michael Waldman
Sexual Harassment Goes Public
279(11)
Judge Clarence Thomas vs. Professor Anita F. Hill
279(11)
Housing and Homelessness
290(7)
Children's Defense Fund
290(7)
Culture Wars
297(14)
The Importance of Family Values
297(5)
Dan Quayle
The Decomposition of America
302(3)
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
P.C. or Not P.C.
305(6)
Rosa Ehrenreich
Welfare Reform
311(6)
The Need for Welfare Reform
311(2)
Bill Clinton
What's Wrong with Welfare Reform
313(4)
Christopher Jencks
The Elections of 1994
317(6)
California's Proposition 187 on Illegal Aliens
317(3)
The Republican ``Contract with America''
320(3)
Suggestions for Further Reading
323

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