The Making of Modern America

Gary A. Donaldson (PhD, LSU) is the Keller Foundation Chair in American History at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. He is the author of numerous books on American political and diplomatic history.

Preface

Chapter 1: Postwar Adjustments
Chapter 2: The Early Cold War
Chapter 3: Affluence and Anxiety: America in the 1950s
Chapter 4: The Eisenhower Presidency
Chapter 5: Kennedy at Home and Abroad
Chapter 6: “We Shall Continue”
Chapter 7: The Nation in the 1960s
Chapter 8: Out of the 1960s and into the 1970s: The Agony of Change
Chapter 9: America in the 1970s: The Post-Watergate Years
Chapter 10: The Reagan Years
Chapter 11: The Kinder, Gentler Conservatism of George H. W. Bush
Chapter 12: Bill Clinton’s America
Chapter 13: America after the New Millennium
Chapter 14: The Second Bush and Obama: From the War on Terrorism to the Audacity of Hope

Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author