Moving On: The American People Since 1945

This is a comprehensive narrative survey of U.S. History since W. W. II. Its hybrid structure retains what is best from traditional public policy approaches while incorporating much demographic, social, cultural, and ecological history. It is an inclusive account that weaves together the stories of all individuals and groups who have played important roles in the unfolding drama of recent U.S. history. Moving On features: expanded treatment of the history of the Cold War in light of recent scholarship using archival sources from the former Soviet Union expanded coverage of the conservative drift in national politics, starting with the Goldwaterites and Backlashers of the 1960s and continuing through the triumphs of Reaganism in the 1980s and the New Rightists of the 1990s coverage of the entire decade of the 1990s, including complete accounts of the Clinton impeachment scandal and NATO's war in Kosovo coverage of the story of recent U.S. history into the year 2000. It also includes a brief retrospective on recent U.S. history and points toward the Twenty-First Century many photos, maps, charts, and graphs chpater synopses, timelines, bibliographic essays, and appendicesMoss, George is the author of 'Moving On: The American People Since 1945' with ISBN 9780130171917 and ISBN 0130171913.