Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (120 page)

Backlash in the late 1960s:
Aside from Rieder,
Canarsie;
Edsall,
Chain Reaction;
Matusow,
Unraveling;
and other books noted above, there are many sources that emphasize aspects of disillusion with liberalism, leading to political realignment after 1965. Among them are E. J. Dionne, Jr.,
Why Americans Hate Politics
(New York, 1991); Kevin Phillips,
The Emerging Republican Majority
(New Rochelle, N.Y., 1969); David Farber,
Chicago '68
(Chicago, 1988); Lewis Chester et al., An
American Melodrama: The Presidential Election of
1968 (New York, 1969); William Chafe, Never
Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism
(New York, 1993), which has much to say about politics in 1967–68; Steven Gillon,
The Democrats' Dilemma: Walter F. Mondale and the Legacy of Liberalism
(New York, 1992); and Marshall Frady,
Wallace
(New York, 1968). Related books include Michael Novak,
The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics: Politics and Culture in the Seventies
(New York, 1972); Peter Steinfels,
The Neo-Conservatives: The Men Who Are Changing American Politics
(New York, 1979); and Jerome Himmelstein,
To the Right: The Transformation of American Conservatism
(Berkeley, 1990).

The early 1970s and Richard Nixon:
A basic survey of the 1970s is Peter Carroll, It
Seemed Like Nothing Happened: The Tragedy and Promise of American Life in the
1970s (New York, 1982). The most comprehensive source on the Nixon presidency is Stephen Ambrose,
Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician, 1962–1972
(New York, 1989), and
Nixon: Ruin and Recovery
, 1973–1990 (New York, 1993). See also Joan Hoff,
Nixon Reconsidered
(New York, 1994), in some ways a revisionist account; and Stanley Kutler,
The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon
(New York, 1990), which is very critical of the President. Garry Wills,
Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
(Boston, 1970), is a provocative biographical study published early in Nixon's presidency. Herbert Parmet,
Richard Nixon and His America
(Boston, 1990), deals with some aspects of Nixon's career. Daniel Moynihan,
The Politics of a Guaranteed Income: The Nixon Administration and the Family Assistance Plan
(New York, 1973), is a detailed history of welfare reform efforts, by Nixon's domestic counselor. Aside from books on Vietnam noted above, the most deeply researched source for foreign policy in the Nixon years is Raymond Garthoff,
Detente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan
(Washington, 1985). Other books on foreign affairs include Robert Litwak,
Detente and the Nixon Doctrine: American Foreign Policy and the Pursuit of Stability
, 1969–1976 (New York, 1984); and William Shawcross,
Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia
(New York, 1979), a sharp indictment of American policy-making. For economic troubles, see Calleo,
Imperious Economy
, and Harrison and Bluestone,
Great U-Turn
, noted above. Sources concerning American attitudes in the late 1960s and early 1970s include two books by Daniel Yankelovich:
The New Morality
(New York, 1974); and
New Rules: Searching for Self-Fulfillment in a World Turned Upside Down
(New York, 1981).

Index

Abernathy, Ralph,
583
,
688

Abortion,
35
,
360
,
566
n,
646
,
711
,
715
,
781
,
782

Acheson, Dean,
98
n,
119
,
194
,
198

and Asia,
209
,
241
,
602

and Cuban missile crisis,
500
,
501

and foreign policy,
103
,
169

and hydrogen bomb,
174
–75

and Korea,
209
,
210
,
227
,
233
,
234

and Nixon,
255
,
434

Present at the Creation
,
104

public service,
101
–3

Republican hatred of,
201
,
202
,
284

and Truman Doctrine,
127
–28

as Undersecretary of State,
112
,
126

and Vietnam,
682
,
683
–84

White Paper (China),
171
,
172

Adams, Sherman,
282
,
415

Adorno, Theodor,
343
,
344

"The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet,"
80
,
351
,
408
,
454

Aerobics
(Cooper),
713

"Affirmative Action,"
642
,
723
,
728
,
730
,
732
,
781
,
782

The Affluent Society
(Galbraith),
340
,
408

African-Americans,
79
,
331
,
351
,
452
,
671
,
675
,
687

in armed forces,
16
,
22

back-lash against,
670
–71

and busing/integration,
732
–35

cultural life,
30
,
31
,
384
,
655
,
657

and education,
67
,
69
,
384
,
386
–95,
398
,
411
,
413
–16

freedom rides (1947),
25

and housing,
26
–27,
74
–75,
336
–37,
383
–84,
474
,
648
,
664
–65

and jobs,
19
,
381
,
478
,
536
,
723

in labor unions,
40
,
382

lynching,
24
–25,
381
,
385

migration to North,
5
,
19
,
381
,
385
,
470
,
654
,
664
–65

in politics/voting,
25
,
29
,
149
,
151
,
162
,
413
,
440
,
579
–88,
649
–50,
653
,
704
,
705
,
760
,
764

population,
15
,
151
,
380

and poverty,
62
–63,
311
,
538
,
673
,
688

and racism,
21
,
22
,
24
,
374
,
384
–85,
397
,
468
,
585
–86

and rock 'n' roll,
371
–72,
373

and segregation,
381
,
384
,
388
–99,
400
–406,
568

sit-ins,
430
–33,
471

social/economic equality of,
638
,
653

in professional sports,
382
–83,
689

and urban riots,
448
–49,
552
,
588
,
650
,
653
,
662
–68

in Vietnam War,
614
,
617

during World War II,
5
,
23
,
385
.
See also
Civil rights movement

Agency for international Development (AID),
496

Agent Orange,
510
,
595
,
619

Agnew, Spiro T.,
700
–701,
702
,
735
–36,
737
,
758
,
776

Agriculture,
56
,
63
,
163
,
166
–67,
272
,
274
,
642
–43

Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC),
573
,
575
,
672
–74,
720
,
721
n,
722
n,
787
n

AIDS,
788
n

Alamagordo,
6
,
108
,
110

Alaska,
411

Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act,
723

Albany Movement,
472
–73.
See also
Civil rights movement

Albert, Carl,
564

Alcatraz Island,
722

Alexander v. Holmes Board of Education
(1969),
731

Ali, Muhammad,
661
,
689

Alice's Restaurant
(film),
454

All About Eve
(film),
363

"All in the Family,"
740

Allen, Fred,
161

Allen, Gracie,
350

Allen, Ivan, Jr.,
666

Allen, Louis,
472

Allende, Salvador,
748

Alliance for Progress,
496

Almanac Singers,
39

Alpert, Richard,
445

Alsop, Joseph,
50
,
285
n,
558

Alsop, Stewart,
50

Altamont Rock Festival,
449
–50,
716

Ambrose, Stephen,
243
,
718
n

American Association of University Professors (AAUP),
185
–86

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),
180
,
399
,
409
n

An
American Dilemma
(Myrdal),
20
–22

American Federation of Labor (AFL),
46
,
52
,
163
,
325
–26,
608
,
761
,
784

American Federation of Teachers,
185

American Heart Association,
713

American Independent Party,
698

American Indian Movement (AIM),
722

American Legion,
182
,
239

American Medical Association (AMA),
143
,
166
,
573
,
576
,
590
,
712

American Psychiatric Association,
711

American Revolution,
66

American Zionist Emergency Council (AZEC),
152

Americans for Democratic Action (ADA),
129
,
146
,
182
,
436

"Amos 'n' Andy,"
31
,
380

Anderson, Marian,
483

Andrews, Dana,
15

Andrews Sisters,
12

Angola,
748

Annie Get Your Gun
(film),
33

Anti-communism,
113
,
146
,
167
,
184
,
279