Books.

General Studies. Numan V. Bartley, The New South, 1945-1980 (1995); John Brooks, The Great Leap (1966). William Chafe, The Unfinished Journey (1986). Carl Degler, Affluence and Anxiety (1968). John P. Diggins, The Proud Decades (1989). Eric Goldman, The Crucial Decade and After (1960). David Halberstam, The Fifties (1993). Godfrey Hodgson, America in Our Time (1976). William Leuchtenburg, A Troubled Feast (1979). Douglas T. Miller and Marion Novak, The Fifties (1977). William O'Neill, American High (1986). James T. Patterson, Grand Expectations: Postwar America, 1945-1974 (1996).

Economy, Labor, and Culture in Postwar America. Paul Boyer, By the Bomb's Early Light (1986). Kevin G. Boyle, The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968 (1995). David P. Calleo, The Imperious Economy (1982). Gilbert C. Fite, American Farmers (1981). Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf, Selling Free Enterprise: the Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60 (1994). Joshua B. Freeman, Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II (2000). John K. Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958); The New Industrial State (1967). Mark I. Gelfand, A Nation of Cities (1975). Robert Heilbroner, The Limits of American Capitalism (1965). John Hutchinson, The Imperfect Union (1970). C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite (1956). Loren J. Okroi, Galbraith, Harrington, Heilbroner (1986). Joel Seidman, American Labor from Defense to Reconversion (1953). Hugh R. Slotten, Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920-1960 (2000). David Stebenne, Arthur J. Goldberg: New Deal Liberal (1996); Harold G. Vatter, The U.S. Economy in the 1950s (1963).

Culture and Ideas. Rosalyn Baxandall and Elizabeth Ewen, Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened (2000). Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology (1960); ed., the Radical Right (1963). Michael T. Bertrand, Race, Rock, and Elvis (2000). Peter Biskind, Seeing is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties (1983). Paul Boyer, By the Bomb's Early Light (1986). Howard Brick, Daniel Bell and the Decline of Intellectual Radicalism (1986). James L. Baughman, The Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America since 1941. Paul A. Carter, Another Part of the Fifties (1983). Ann Charters, Kerouac (1973). Alison J. Clarke, Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America (1999). Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003). Bruce Cook, The Beat Generation (1971). Thomas Cripps, Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era (1993). Tom Engelhardt, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation (1995); Edward J. Epstein, News from Nowhere (1973). Herbert Gans, The Levittowners (1967). William Graebner, The Age of Doubt: American Thought and Culture in the 1940s (1991). David Halberstam, The Powers That Be (1979). Jeffrey Hart, When the Going Was Good: American Life in the Fifties (1982). Dolores Hayden, Redesigning the American Dream (1984). Kenneth T. Jackson, The Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985). Marty Jezer, The Dark Ages: Life in the U.S. 1945--1960 (1982). Landon Y. Jones, Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation (1980). Neil Jumonville, Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America (1991). George Lipsitz, Class and Culture in Cold War America (1981). Roger W. Lotchin, Fortress California, 1910-1961: From Warfare to Welfare (1992). Mary Sperling McAuliffe, Crisis on the Left (1978). Walter A. McDougall, . . . the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age (1985). Dennis McNally, Desolate Angel (1979). Margaret Marsh, Suburban Lives (1990). Douglas T. Miller and Marion Novak, The Fifties (1977). Zane L. Miller, Suburb: Neighborhood and Community in Forest Park, Ohio, 1935--1976 (1981). C. Wright Mills, White Collar (1956). Richard H. Pells, The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s (1985). David Potter, People of Plenty (1954). David Riesman, The Lonely Crowd (1950). Leila Rupp and Verta Taylor, Survival in the Doldrums (1987). Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Vital Center (1949). Lynn Spigel, Make Room for TV (1992). Walter Sullivan, ed., America's Race for the Moon (1962). John Tytell, Naked Angels (1976). Reinhold Wagnleitner and Elaine Tyler May, ed., "Here, There, and Everywhere": The Foreign Politics of American Popular Culture (2000). Alan M. Wald, The New York Intellectuals (1987). Stephen J. Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold War (1991). William Whyte, The Organization Man (1956). Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff (1979). Gwendolyn Wright, Building the American Dream: A Social History of Housing in America (1981). (See also Cold War Politics and Culture in Chapter 29.)

Women and Families. William Chafe, The American Woman: Her Changing Social, Economic, and Political Roles, 1920--1970, rev. ed. (1988). Ruth Cowan, More Work for Mother: The Irony of Household Technology (1983). Eugenia Kaledin, Mothers and More: American Women in the 1950s (1984). Susan Estabrook Kennedy, If All We Did Was to Weep at Home: A History of White Working-Class Women in America (1979). Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (1982). Kathleen A. Laughlin, Women's Work and Public Policy: A History of the Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor 1945-1970 (2000). Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War (1988). Susan Strasser, Never Done: A History of American Housework (1982).

Politics in the Eisenhower Years. Sherman Adams, Firsthand Report (1961). Charles C. Alexander, Holding the Line (1975). Stephen Ambrose, Eisenhower the President (1984). Jean Baker, The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family (1996); Brian Balogh, Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Nuclear Commercial Power, 1945--1975 (1991). Piers Brendon, Ike (1986). Jeff Broadwater, Eisenhower and the Anti-Communist Crusade (1992). Robert F. Burk, Dwight D. Eisenhower (1986). Barbara B. Clowse, Brainpower for the Cold War: The Sputnik Crisis and the National Defense Education Act of 1958 (1981). Dwight D. Eisenhower, The White House Years, 2 vols. (1963--1965). Fred Greenstein, The Hidden-hand Presidency (1982). Emmet John Hughes, The Ordeal of Power (1963). Peter Lyon, Eisenhower: Portrait of a Hero (1974). Richard Nixon, Six Crises (1962). Herbert S. Parmet, Eisenhower and the American Crusades (1972). Nicol C. Rae, The Decline and Fall of the Liberal Republicans (1989). Gary Reichard, The Reaffirmation of Republicanism (1975); Politics as Usual (1988). David W. Reinhard, The Republican Right Since 1945 (1983). Elmo Richardson, The Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenower (1979). Mark H. Rose, Interstate: Express Highway Politics, 1941--1956 (1979). R. L. Rosholt, An Administrative History of NASA (1966).

Foreign Policy. Stephen Ambrose, Ike's Spies (1981). David L. Anderson, Trapped by Success: The Eisenhower Administration and Vietnam, 1953--1961 (1991). Howard Ball, Justice Downwind: America's Nuclear Testing Program in the 1950s (1986). Michael Beschloss, MAYDAY (1986). Henry W. Brands, Cold Warriors (1988); The Specter of Neutralism: The United States and the Emergence of the Third World, 1947--1960 (1989). Blanche W. Cooke, The Declassified Eisenhower (1981). Chester Cooper, Lost Crusade (1970); The Lion's Last Roar (1978). Cecil Currey, Edward Lansdale: The Unquiet American (1988). Robert A. Divine, Foreign Policy and U.S. Presidential Elections, 2 vols. (1974); Blowing in the Wind: The Nuclear Test Ban Debate, 1954--1960 (1978); Eisenhower and the Cold War (1981). William J. Duiker, US Containment Policy and the Conflict in Indochina (1992). Frances Fitzgerald, Fire in the Lake (1972). Steven Z. Freiberger, Dawn over Suez: The Rise of American Power in the Middle East, 1953-1957 (1992). Lloyd C. Gardner, Pay any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam (1995). Louis Gerson, John Foster Dulles (1967). Gregg Herken, Counsels of War (1985). George Herring, America's Longest War (1979). Richard G. Hewlett and Jack M. Hall, Atoms for Peace and War, 1953--1961 (1989). Townsend Hoopes, The Devil and John Foster Dulles (1973). Richard Immerman, The CIA in Guatemala (1982). Burton Kaufman, The Oil Cartel Case (1978). Gabriel Kolko, Confronting the Third World (1988). Ronald R. Krebs, Dueling Visions: U.S. Strategy toward Eastern Europe under Eisenhower (2001). Walter LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions (1983). John T. McAlister, Jr., Vietnam: The Origins of Revolution (1969). Richard A. Melanson and David A. Mayers, ed., Reevaluating Eisenhower (1986). Stephen G. Rabe, Eisenhower and Latin America (1988). Kermit Roosevelt, Counter-coup (1980). Andrew Rotter, The Path to Vietnam (1987); Comrades at Odds: The United States and India, 1947-1964 (2000). Richard Smoke, National Security and the Nuclear Dilemma (1988). Hugh Thomas, Suez (1967). Reinhold Wagnleitner and Elaine Tyler May, ed., "Here, There, and Everywhere": The Foreign Politics of American Popular Culture (2000). Mira Wilkins, The Maturing of Multinational Enterprise (1974).

Legal and Constitutional Issues. Alexander Bickel, Politics and the Warren Court (1965); The Supreme Court and the Idea of Progress (1970). Phillip Kurland, Politics, the Constitution, and the Warren Court (1970). Paul Murphy, The Constitution in Crisis Times (1972). Lucas A. Powe, Jr., The Warren Court and American Politics (2000). Bernard Schwartz, Super Chief: Earl Warren and His Supreme Court (1983). Philip Stern, The Oppenheimer Case (1969). Michael Straight, Trial by Television (1954). John Weaver, Earl Warren (1967).

Civil Rights. John W. Anderson, Eisenhower, Brownell, and the Congress (1964). Numan V. Bartley, The Rise of Massive Resistance (1969). Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters (1988). Robert F. Burk, The Eisenhower Administration and Black Civil Rights (1984). William Chafe, Civilities and Civil Rights (1980). Pete Daniel, Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s (2000). John Egerton, Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South (1994). Kevin Gaines, Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century (1996); David Garrow, ed., The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: A Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson (1987); Bearing the Cross (1986). Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (2001). Elizabeth Huckaby, Crisis at Central High (1980). Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom (1958). Richard H. King, Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom (1992). Richard Kluger, Simple Justice (1975). Michael L. Krenn, Black Diplomacy: African Americans and the State Department, 1945-1969 (1999). Steven Lawson, Running for Freedom (1991). Anthony Lewis, Portrait of a Decade (1964). Timothy J. Minchin, The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980 (2001). Robert J. Norrell, Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee (1985). James T. Patterson, Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy (2001). Brenda Gayle Plummer, Rising Wind: Black Americans and Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960 (1996). Howell Raines, My Soul Is Rested (1977). Harvard Sitkoff, The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954--1980 (1981). Patricia Sullivan, Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era (1996); Abigail Thernstrom, Whose Votes Count? Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights (1987). Nancy J. Weiss, Whitney M. Young, Jr., and the Struggle for Civil Rights (1989).

Minorities and the Poor. Rodolfo Acuna, Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (1981). Xiaolan Bao, Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-92 (2001). Larry W. Burt, Tribalism in Crisis: Federal Indian Policy, 1953--1961 (1982). Donald Fixico, Termination and Relocation: Federal Indian Policy, 1945--1970 (1986). J. Wayne Flint, Dixie's Forgotten People: The South's Poor Whites (1979). Michael Harrington, The Other America (1962). R. Douglas Hurt, ed., The Rural South since World War II (1998). Jacqueline Jones, The Dispossessed: America's Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present (1992). Nicholas Lemann, The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (1991). Elena Padilla, Up from Puerto Rico (1958). Linda Reed, Simple Decency and Common Sense (1992).

Films.

An Age of Conformity (1991). A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom (California Newsreel, 1995). Eisenhower (1993). Goin' to Chicago (1994). The Satellite Sky (1990).