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Examines the history of postwar America, looks at politics and popular culture, and discusses the most important figures of the period.
"Robert Moskin's volume chronicles the first five months of Harry Truman's presidency, encompassing not only the destruction and defeat of the Axis Powers in Germany and Japan, but also the dropping of the first atomic bombs, the birth of the United Nations, the death of colonia…
Looks at the history of the United States after the end of World War Two through the early sixties, focusing on the acceleration of the Cold War.
The 1940s are the watershed decade of the twentieth century, a time of trauma and upheaval but also of innovation and profound and lasting cultural change. This is the era of Fat Man and Little Boy, of FDR and Stalin, but also of Casablanca and Citizen Kane, zoot suits and Chris…
