The Proud Decades; America in War and Peace, 1941 - 1960

DIGGINS, John Patrick

ISBN 10: 0393025489 / ISBN 13: 9780393025484

Published by Norton, New York, 1988

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Illustrated in black & white; 381pp.

Seller Inventory # 902369

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Proud Decades; America in War and Peace, 1941 - 1960
• Publisher: Norton, New York
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393025489
• ISBN 13: 9780393025484
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Reference
  • History

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Synopsis

From Pearl Harbor to the election of John F. Kennedy, the forties and the fifties reveal the heart of America. Diggins provides a history of the two decades that remade America and its place in the world. Photos and maps.

Review

A superb introduction to the period, not only for what it recounts but for Mr. Diggins's shrewd guidance through the intricacies of cold war diplomacy and domestic politics and economics in the age of Truman and Eisenhower, and for his illumination of the time through such people and young Martin Luther King, Jr., in the early days of the civil rights movement, Senator McCarthy and Charles Wilson of General Motors. He impressively combines responsible coverage with sharp commentary in clear, bright, readable prose. --Alan Trachtenberg"

A superbly and provocatively written account that somehow successfully combines social, cultural, political, and diplomatic history (Kinsey, Bogart, McCarthy, Eisenhower, along with many others) to give us the overview we have needed of that mid-century shift that changed the course of American life--even before we entered the Sixties.--Walter LaFeber, Cornell University