A-16 ★ SUGGESTED READING
Nicolaides, Becky M. My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working- Class
Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920–1965 (2002). Traces the transformation of
Southgate, an industrial neighborhood of Los Angeles, into an all- white
suburb, and the political results.
Patterson, James T. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974 (1996).
A comprehensive account of American history over the three decades
following World War II.
Pells, Richard. The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in
the 1940s and 1950s (1984). Examines how American writers and artists
responded to the Cold War.
Phillips- Fein, Kim. Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement
from the New Deal to Reagan (2009). Relates how a group of economic think-
ers and businessmen worked to fashion a conservative movement in an
attempt to reverse many of the policies of the New Deal.
Wall, Wendy L. Inventing the “American Way”: The Politics of Consensus from the
New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement (2008). A careful examination of the
political and ideological world of the Cold War era.
Westad, Odd Arne. The Global Cold War (2005). A wide- ranging analysis of how
the Cold War played out in the Third World.
WEBSITES
Brown v. Board of Education: http://www.lib.umich.edu/ brown- versus- board
- education/
Herblock’s History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/herblock/
CHAPTER 25
BOOKS
Anderson, John A., III. The Other Side of the Sixties: Young Americans for Freedom
and the Rise of Conservative Politics (1997). Considers conservative students
of the 1960s and how they laid the groundwork for the later growth of
their movement.
Appy, Christian G. Working- Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam
(1993). A careful account of how the draft operated to place the burden of
fighting on working- class Americans.
Brick, Howard. Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s
(1998). A careful examination of the complex currents of thought that
circulated during the decade.