Table of Contents

Preface Part I - The Progressive Political Order, 1900-1933 1. The Progressive Order, 1900-33 2. The Role of immigrants, Workers and Women, 1900-33 3. Progressive Hopes: From Roosevelt to Wilson, 1900-17 4. The Progressives and the World, 1900-33 5. Red Scare and Republican Ascendancy: From Wilson to Hoover, 1917-33 Part II - The New Deal Political Order, 1933-1969 6. Crearting the New Deal Order, 1933-69 7. Advancing workers and containing women, 1933-69 8. Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, 1933-45 9. Isolation and World War, 1933-45 10. Towards a post-war consensus: From Truman to Kennedy, 1945-61 11. The African American challenge, 1933-69 12. The New Frontier and Great Society: From Kennedy to Nixon, 1961-69 13. The Cold War and Vietnam, 1945-69 Part III - The Fragmented Political Order, 1969-2012 14. Surviving the Fragmented Order, 1969-2000 15. Containing workers and advancing women, 1969-2000 16. African Americans, Immigrants and Ethnics, 1969-2000 17. The uncertain seventies: From Nixon to Reagan, 1969-1981 18. The United States and the World, 1969-2000 19. Limited Victories: from Reagan to Clinton, 1981-2000 Epilogue 20. Extending the twentieth century, 2001-12 Further Reading Appendix A: Presidental Elections, 1900-2012 Appendix B: Party composition of Congress, 1901-2013 Index

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An analysis of the changes and continuities in the US political system and US society since 1900.

About the Author

Michael Heale is Professor Emeritus at Lancaster University, UK, and Supernumerary Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford.

Reviews

This is an excellent, concise, introduction to the period covered.
*Dr. Michael Goodrum, Canterbury Christchurch University, UK*