A progressive history of American democracy since 1945 : American dreams, hard realities

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.