viii Contents
- Triumph of Industrial Capitalism Chapter 1: Reconstruction, Expansion, and the
- Reconstruction and Race, Controversies and Consequences
- The Backlash
- A New Kind of Slavery
- Meet the New South, Same as the Old South?
- Native American Genocide and Western Expansion
- Gold and Death in the Black Hills
- Stealing Land and Culture
- American Power The Triumph of Industrial Capitalism and the Growth of
- The South as Economic Colony
- The Transition to and Triumph of Industry
- Business Expansion and Corporations
- Wealth and Power, Private and Public
- Railroads and Capitalist Development
- Rockefeller and Carnegie, Oil and Steel, Power and Wealth
- Creating Industrial Labor
- The American Working Class, 1870-1900
- Workers’ Culture, and the Challenge to Capitalism
- Class Violence in America
- The Capitalists Strike Back
- Industrialization Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and the Fight Against
- Fury on the Farms
- The Second American Revolution
- Reform, War Chapter 2: Liberalism: Power, Economic Crisis,
- The Crisis of the 1890s and the Turn to Empire
- Capital vs. Labor, the Struggle Continues
- Progressivism, Cleaning Up the Rough Edges of Capitalism
- Corporate Liberalism
- America Attains Global Power
- “Democracy” in Progressivism and War
- Versailles, American Power, and Setting the Stage for World War II
- Red Scares and Revolutions
- Which Side Are You On? The West Virginia Coal Wars
- Progress and Problems
- and Crash Chapter 3: The ‘20s: Culture, Consumption,
- Liberals
- and Backlash
- Culture and Economic Growth
- Black Culture, White Money
- The Rise of a Consumer’s Culture
- Entertaining the Masses
- “Pop” Goes the Economy
- Hoover’s (Non)-Response
- The “Isolationist” ‘20s?
- More Trouble Ahead
- of Power Chapter 4:FDR, New Deals, and the Limits
- FDR and the Rescue of Capitalism
- The Bonus Army Contents v
- The “First” New Deal as Conservative Reform
- Every Man a King!
- The “Second” New Deal
- Roosevelt’s Recession and the New Deal’s Legacy
- FDR, Liberals, and Labor
- In the Streets
- And in the Fields
- Dr. New Deal?
- Global Power Chapter 5: World War and the Growth of
- Power, Fascism, and Global Conflict Europe
- Asia and Japanese Aggression
- Keynesianism The United States: Neutrality, the Open Door, and Military
- World War II and the American Economy
- War for Global Power (Europe), 1941-1945
- War for Global Power (Asia), 1941-1945
- Economic Power Wins the War!
- Destruction and Crimes Against Humanity
- Rosie and ER: Women, Power, and Wartime
- The War and the “Irony” of Race
- The Internment of Japanese Americans
- Labor Goes to War: The End of “Radical” Unionism
- From Depression to Power
- Through Cold and Hot Wars Chapter 6: The Growth of American Power
- Origins of the Cold War and Global Power
- Strategies for Power: Economic and Political
- Cold War! The Political Rivalry Emerges
- Poland, Germany, and Greece
- “National Security” and Economic Hegemony
- Berlin, Economic Power, and Cold War Success vi Contents
- Asia, Running Cold and Hot
- Using the Military as an Economic Program
- and Vietnam The Cold War Grows: The Examples of Iran, Guatemala,
- The Cold War, from Europe to the Whole World
- The Cold War at Home, or “Domestic Containment”
- Despair and Hope in the Cold War
- Eisenhower and Kennedy Years Chapter 7: Conformity and Challenges in the
- Duck and Cover!
- Europe—Thaw and Heat
- American Power, and Problems, in the Middle East
- McCarthyism, Rising and Falling
- Prosperity, Consumerism, Conformity, and Culture
- The “Other” 1950s
- Music as Politics
- “Rockin’ and Rollin”
- What Are You Rebelling Against?
- Paintings of Protest
- Conformity, or Madness? The Beatniks
- Hefner and Gaines
- Competing Visions as “The Torch is Passed”
- “The Testicles of the West”
- Counterculture The Fifties: Cold War, Conformity, Containment, and
- and Cultural Developments in the 1960s Chapter 8: A New Kind of Democracy? Political
- Questioning Authority
- Creating a New Democracy
- Making a Great Society
- I Have a Dream
- Burn, Baby, Burn! Northern Rage Contents vii
- Black Power!
- Race and Class
- The Death of a Dream
- Women’s Liberation
- Sisterhood is Powerful
- Fighting Back at Stonewall
- Viva La Raza!
- The “Art” of Protest in the ‘60s
- Movements and Democracy in the Sixties
- Chapter 9: Vietnam, Protest, and Counterculture
- The First Indochina War
- The Americans Take Over
- The Chaos Continues and America Escalates
- Beyond Vietnam: Brazil, the DR, and Indonesia, 1964-66
- Occupying a Hostile Foreign Country
- Going Out With a Bang
- Anti-war Soldiers
- The War at Home and the Counterculture
- Make Love, Not War
- The “Anti-‘60s”
- At Century’s End Chapter 10: Power, Lost and Found: America
- H2OGate Blues
- Nixon’s Economy, Oil and Shocks
- The “Greening” of Richard Nixon? The Life, and Death, of the Environment
- Reagan, Renewal, Riches and Poverty
- Iran-Contra Morning [or Mourning] in America: Central America and
- Reagan’s Military-Industrial Complex
- Gorbachev From Cold War to Collapse of Communism: Reagan and
- Cultural Resistance in the Time of Reagan
- Clinton, Wall Street, and Globalization
- Prologue to 9/11/01
- The Rise of Islamist Politics
- The Terror Era
- Power and People in an Age of Limits and Loss Chapter 11: Bush and Obama, Wars and Economy:
- Global War On Terror
- The War at Home
- The Limits of Power
- 1929, The Sequel? Tax Cuts, Wars, and Housing Bubbles
- Barack Obama: “Hope and Change” or More of the Same?
- American Decline Simpsons, Sopranos, Draper, and White: Anti-Heroes and
- Conclusion/Consilium
- Suggestions for Further Reading