Biographie de l'auteur :
William H. Chafe is Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History at Duke University. He is the author or coeditor of several books, including Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South (2008), The Rise and Fall of the American Century: The United States from 1890-2009 (OUP, 2007), A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America, Seventh Edition (OUP, 2007), Private Lives/Public Consequences: Personality and Politics in Modern America (2005), and Never Stop Running: Allard K. Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism (1998). He is a former president of the Organization of American Historians and his books have been recognized with the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (1981), the Sidney Hillman Book Award (1994), and the Lillian Smith Book Award (2003).
Présentation de l'éditeur :
This popular and classic text chronicles America's roller-coaster journey through the decades since World War II. Considering both the paradoxes and the possibilities of post-war America, Chafe portrays the significant cultural and political themese which have coloured the country's past and present, including issues of race, class, gender, foreign policy, and economic and social reform.
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