The Proud Decades: America in War and in Peace, 1941-1960

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W. W. Norton & Company, 1988 - 381 páginas
What happens when public figures' private selves are put forth for examination by public audiences? How do the personal struggles of music artists, specifically those with immigrant backgrounds, compare to the private struggles of other individuals? At a time when many countries in the European Union experience an increase in far-right political party activities, how do individuals from the margins negotiate new ways of thinking about identity, offering hope for greater understanding of shared struggles across societies? This book offers interpretations of identity and belonging by examining the work of two music artists, Faudel Belloua from France and Adam Tensta from Sweden. By analyzing texts produced by these individuals, I argue that ongoing engagement with the materials produced by Belloua and Tensta, a process which I refer to as living biography, presents a unique window into the process of how Belloua and Tensta connect personal struggles to public issues, providing a compelling departure point for further discussions on how interpretations of national identity are changing in France and Sweden and beyond.
 

Índice

FDR AND THE FATE OF THE NEW DEAL
10
THE WAR THE HOLOCAUST AND THE BOMB
34
The Cold War
54
REVISIONIST ARGUMENTS
67
THE KENNANLIPPMANN DEBATE
81
Truman McCarthyism and the Ordeal of Liberalism
95
THE RED SCARE
110
Eisenhower and Dulles
122
THE FINE ARTS AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION
231
THE END OF IDEOLOGY AND THE CONTROVERSY
247
PHILOSOPHY THEOLOGY
257
THE NEW YORK INTELLECTUALS AND THE SAN FRANCISCO BEATNIKS
263
Black America the Constitution and Civil Rights
275
THE WARREN COURT AND THE BROWN DECISION
279
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR AND
288
Neither War nor Peace
297

EISENHOWER
128
ENDING THE KOREAN WAR
136
THE DOMESTIC DETERMINANTS OF THE COLD WAR
147
Politics Culture and the Loyalty Controversy
157
THE PURGE OF THE PROFESSIONS
165
American Society
177
TELEVISION AND THE HEROES OF ENTERTAINMENT
188
YOUTH CULTURE STUDENT LIFE SEX
198
THE AUTHORITY OF SOCIETY AND THE FATE OF THE INDIVIDUAL
207
The Life of the Mind in a Placid Age
220
THE ELECTION OF 1956
304
SPUTNIK THE SPACE RACE AND ARMS CONTROL
312
The End of the Ike Age
319
THE ENVIRONMENT THE HIDDEN PERILS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY
325
CASTROS CUBAN REVOLUTION AND THE U2 INCIDENT
331
THE ELECTION OF 1960
338
CONCLUSION
345
A NOTE ON SOURCES
351
CREDITS
366
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John Patrick Diggins is the author of The Rise and Fall of the American Left and The Proud Decades: 1941–1960, in addition to biographies of John Adams and Max Weber. He is a distinguished professor of history at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He lives in New York City.

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