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Making America, A History of the United States
Making America, Third Edition
Carol Berkin, Baruch College, City University of New York
Christopher L. Miller, The University of Texas, Pan American
Robert W. Cherny, San Francisco State University
James L. Gormly, Washington and Jefferson College
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Chapter 26: Truman and Cold War America, 1945-1952
Paul Boyer. By the Bombs Early Light: American Thought and the Culture
at the Dawn of the Atomic Age (1985).
A useful analysis of the impact of atomic energy
and the atomic bomb on American Society, form adverting to mock atomic bomb
drills.
Norman Friedman. The Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold
War. Naval Institute (2000).
An intelligent overview of the strategies and
events of the Cold War.
David McCullough. Truman (1992).
A highly acclaimed and very readable bibliography
of Truman.
James T. Patterson. Grand Expectations:
The United States, 1945–1974 (1996).
An exhaustive look at American politics and
society.
Stanley Sandler. The Korean War: No Victors, No Vanquished (1999).
A short, well-written and balanced view of
the Korean War.
Ellen Schrecker. Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism
in America (1998).
An effective analysis of the impact of the
second Red Scare in the United States and how it filtered through American society.
March Trachtenberg. A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement,
1945-1963 (1999).
An international view of the complexities of
the development of the Cold War in Europe, with particular focus on the role
of Germany.
Jules Tygiel. Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
(1983).
Reflections on the life experiences and decisions
that brought Jackie Robinson to break the color barrier in professional baseball.
Stephen J. Whitfeld. The Culture of the
Cold War (1991).
A critical account of the impact of the Cold
War on the United States with a focus that a militant form of “Americanism”
dominated American life.
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