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"Provides all the necessary details, critical when it is appropriate, insightful, informative!"--James Edmonson, Emmanuel College
"Still the best-written text on the period."--Paul Barrett, Illinois Institute of Technology
"Beautifully written. . . . Unquestionably the finest history of the post--World War Two era." --Lewis H. Carlson, Western Michigan University
"The Unfinished Journey still makes our students feel the history of the postwar era and is unsurpassed for the civil rights coverage."--Mollie C. Davis, Queens College
"Still the best-written text on the period."--Paul Barrett, Illinois Institute of Technology
"Beautifully written. . . . Unquestionably the finest history of the post--World War Two era." --Lewis H. Carlson, Western Michigan University
"The Unfinished Journey still makes our students feel the history of the postwar era and is unsurpassed for the civil rights coverage."--Mollie C. Davis, Queens College
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"Still the best-written text on the period."--Paul Barrett, Illinois Institute of Technology
"Beautifully written. . . . Unquestionably the finest history of the post-World War Two era."--Lewis H. Carlson, Western Michigan University
"The Unfinished Journey still makes our students feel the history of the postwar era and is unsurpassed in its civil rights coverage."--Mollie C. Davis, Queens College
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When Japanese bombers unleashed their terror on Pearl Harbor the morning of December 7, 1941, the event shook America with the devastation of a massive earthquake. Read the first page
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An excellent brief political history of the post WWII period
8 Mar 1999
Format:Paperback
Chafe does a good job on selected topics;i.e., politics, civil rights and foreign policy. Weak on economics, technology, farm policy. Heavily dependent on some secondary sources like Doris Kearns Goodwin. Needs updating badly. 4th edition has been delayed for months.
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Good, thorough survey
5 April 2009
Format:Paperback
This is an excellent survey of U.S. history since World War II. Just about every topic imaginable is covered: the Cold War, the baby boom, McCarthyism, TV and popular culture in the 1950s, the civil rights movement, JFK, LBJ, the 1960s youth movement, Vietnam, Watergate, women's liberation, Reagan, Clinton, and even such recent events as 9/11, the war in Iraq, and Katrina.
One of the book's strengths is that one is able to see the onset (from the Cold War to the quest for social change) of much of the polarization in our current-day politics. One of the best chapters is devoted to the year 1968, a "watershed" year that author William Chafe refers to as "a time of horror, embitterment, despair, and agony." He skillfully describes the country literally coming apart at the seams: how several forces sought social change, and how Richard Nixon was able to exploit the anger and violence of the year to win the presidential election. We seem to have been fighting the culture wars ever since.
There are some weaknesses. As an editor by profession, I was annoyed to see Bull Connor referred to as Bull "Conner" on at least one occasion, and Helen Gahagan Douglas (Nixon's "pink lady") is referred to as Helen "Galagan" Douglas at least once in the text and even in the index. Chafe also mentions Hurricane Katrina hitting Louisiana in early September 2005, when it actually hit at the end of August. I also would have liked to have seen some topics discussed in greater length: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the assassinations of MLK and RFK almost seem to just get mentioned in passing. That being said, Chafe has a lot of ground to cover, and he crams a lot of information into about 600 pages.
(Strangely, Chafe also refers to historian Doris Kearns Goodwin as just Doris Kearns. Don't know what that's all about.)
All in all, though, this is a good, thorough survey of "the unfinished journey" of American history.
One of the book's strengths is that one is able to see the onset (from the Cold War to the quest for social change) of much of the polarization in our current-day politics. One of the best chapters is devoted to the year 1968, a "watershed" year that author William Chafe refers to as "a time of horror, embitterment, despair, and agony." He skillfully describes the country literally coming apart at the seams: how several forces sought social change, and how Richard Nixon was able to exploit the anger and violence of the year to win the presidential election. We seem to have been fighting the culture wars ever since.
There are some weaknesses. As an editor by profession, I was annoyed to see Bull Connor referred to as Bull "Conner" on at least one occasion, and Helen Gahagan Douglas (Nixon's "pink lady") is referred to as Helen "Galagan" Douglas at least once in the text and even in the index. Chafe also mentions Hurricane Katrina hitting Louisiana in early September 2005, when it actually hit at the end of August. I also would have liked to have seen some topics discussed in greater length: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the assassinations of MLK and RFK almost seem to just get mentioned in passing. That being said, Chafe has a lot of ground to cover, and he crams a lot of information into about 600 pages.
(Strangely, Chafe also refers to historian Doris Kearns Goodwin as just Doris Kearns. Don't know what that's all about.)
All in all, though, this is a good, thorough survey of "the unfinished journey" of American history.
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