Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-354) and index.
Postwar adjustments -- The early Cold War -- Affluence and anxiety : America in the 1950s -- The Eisenhower presidency -- Kennedy at home and abroad -- "We shall continue" -- The nation in the 1960s -- Out of the 1960s and into the 1970s : the agony of change -- America in the 1970s : the post-Watergate years -- The Reagan years -- The kinder, gentler conservatism of George H.W. Bush -- Bill Clinton's America -- Taking stock : America at the new millennium -- The life and times of George W. Bush.