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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 27: Quest for Consensus, 1952-1960
Stephen E. Ambrose. Eisenhower: The President
(1984).
A generally positive and well-balanced biography
of Eisenhower as president by one of the most respected historians of the Eisenhower
period.
Robert F. Burk. The Eisenhower Administration
and Black Civil Rights (1984).
An insightful examination of federal policy
and the civil rights movement.
Robert A. Devine. Eisenhower and the Cold
War (1981).
A solid and brief account of Eisenhower’s foreign
policy, especially toward the Soviet Union.
David J. Garrow. Bearing the Cross (1986).
An in-depth description of the development
of the civil rights movement and the role of Martin Luther King, Jr.
David Halberstam. The Fifties (1993).
A positive interpretive view of the 1950s by
a well-known journalist and author, especially recommended for its description
of famous and not-so-famous people.
Eugenia Kaledin. Mothers and More: American
Women in the 1950s (1984).
A thoughtful look at the role of American women
in society during the 1950s.
Karal Ann Marling. As Seen on TV: The Visual
Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s (1994).
A view of how television reflected and created
the society and its values.
Douglas T. Miller, and Marion Novak. The
Fifties: The Way We Really Were (1977).
An interesting, useful, and often quoted description
of American society during the 1950s.
Jessica Weiss. To Have and To Hold: Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social
Change (2000).
An examination of hundred of families from
the 1950s through the 1970s and how the tensions of social, economic, and cultural
change affected family life and the roles of husbands, wives and children.
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