A History of Our Time: Readings on Postwar America
- ISBN-10
- 019508277X
- ISBN-13
- 9780195082777
- Series
- A History of Our Time
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 558
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Authors
- Harvard Sitkoff, William H. Chafe
Description
This comprehensive, widely-read anthology presents cogent and provocative articles from differing political perspectives on major issues in post-World War II America. The fourth edition is considerably expanded to include new selections on the AIDS epidemic, gay rights, the women's movement,and the Clinton-Gore administration. In addition to articles by leading historians the editors have chosen first-person accounts by participants in each of the issues under discussion, from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from the Birmingham Jail" to Al Gore's speech on environmentalism. Withlively introductions to each section providing a context for the articles, this book helps students make sense of the tumultuous world of our time.
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Other editions
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- 2012
- 434 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press, USA
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- 1987
- 484 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press, USA
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