Preface; Introduction; Part I. Years of Consensus, 1945-1960; 1. Defining the Cold War; George F. Kennan: The Origins of Containment; Henry A. Wallace: The Case for Cooperation; 2. Fighting the Cold War at Home; I.F. Stone: Dissent in an Age of Conformity; J.

Edgar Hoover: Combating the Red Menace; 3. The Transformation of Popular Culture; Marilyn Monroe: The New Sexuality; Elvis Presley: The Birth of Rock and Roll; 4. Outsiders in a Conformist Society; Jackie Robinson: The National Pastime and the Issue of Race; Allen Ginsberg: Avatar of the Beats; 5. Defending Democracy in the Nuclear Age; Curtis LeMay: Planning for Armageddon; C. Wright Mills: Prophet of the New Left; Part II. From Confidence to Crisis, 1960-1980; 6. Civil Rights and Social Justice; Fannie Lou Hamer: The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Cesar Chavez: The United Farm Workers Union; 7. Challenges to the Liberal Consensus; Tom Hayden: The Birth of the New Left; Barry Goldwater: The Roots of the New Right; 8.

1968: The Hope and the Fear; Robert Kennedy: The Promise of the New Politics; George Wallace: The Politics of Rage; 9. Implosions: The Collapse of the Counterculture and the New Left; Jimi Hendrix: The Limits of Cultural Radicalism; Bernardine Dohrn: The Death of the New Left; 10. The Women's Movement: Revolution and Reaction; Gloria Steinem: New Directions for Feminism; Phyllis Schlafly: Counterrevolution on the Right; Part III. The Search for New Directions, 1980-Present; 11. The Roaring Eighties: Patriotism, Piety, and Profit; Jerry Falwell: The Emergence of the Christian Right; Bill Gates: The Profitability of Techno-Times; 12. After the Revolution: New Horizons for Black Americans; Tiger Woods: Golf's Great Black Hope; Clarence Thomas: Black Conservatism in Judicial Robes; 13. America and the New World Order; Paul Wolfowitz: Democratic Imperialist; Noam Chomsky: Radical Gadfly; About the Authors.