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Tables of Contents for The Many Sides of America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
v
1945-1952
1
42
Introduction
1
2
The Atomic Age Begins
3
5
The Novelty of Atomic Energy
3
5
J. Robert Oppenheimer
The United States Develops a Cold War Ideology
8
9
The Cold War to Be a Moral Crusade
8
3
Harry S. Truman
NSC-68, The Emergence of a National Security State
11
6
Race Relations
17
12
National Civil Rights Commission, A Program of Action
17
6
Executive Order Desegregating the Armed Forces
23
1
Harry S Truman
The Desegregation of the Armed Forces in Korea
24
5
Domestic Anticommunism
29
14
The Threat of Domestic Communism
29
4
Joseph McCarthy
The House Un-American Activities Committee, Naming Names
33
8
Suggestions for Further Reading
41
2
1953-1962
43
56
Introduction
43
2
School Desegregation
45
8
The Supreme Court, Brown v. Board of Education
45
4
South Carolina Enacts ``Interposition''
49
4
Foreign Policy
53
8
The Policy of Massive Retaliation
53
3
John Foster Dulles
Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, A Warning
56
5
Cultural Homogeneity
61
10
The ``Other-Directed'' Person
61
2
David Reisman
How to Cheat on Personality Tests
63
6
William H. Whyte, Jr.
American ``Faith in Faith''
69
2
Will Herberg
Civil Rights
71
11
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
71
4
E. D. Nixon
Rosa Parks
The Sit-Ins Begin
75
7
Franklin McCain
The Cuban Missile Crisis
82
8
The Threat We Face in Cuba
82
4
John F. Kennedy
What Did We Learn?
86
4
I. F. Stone
Organized Public School Prayer Banned
90
4
The Supreme Court, Engel v. Vitali
90
4
College Students Mobilize
94
5
The Port Huron Statement
94
3
Suggestions for Further Reading
97
2
1963-1970
99
58
Introduction
99
2
Civil Rights
101
18
The Philosophy of Non-Violence
101
6
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Ballot or the Bullet
107
5
Malcolm X
Why We Need the Vote
112
3
Fannie Lou Hamer
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
115
4
The War on Poverty
119
10
The Invisible Poor
119
5
Michael Harrington
The War on Poverty
124
5
Lyndon B. Johnson
Vietnam
129
7
Why Are We in Viet-Nam?
129
3
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Pentagon Papers, We Must Avoid Humiliation
132
4
The Reemergence of Feminism
136
7
The Problem That Has No Name
136
4
Betty Friedan
National Organization for Women (NOW), Bill of Rights
140
1
The Redstockings Manifesto, Men Are the Source of Our Oppression
141
2
The Counterculture
143
5
Consciousness III
143
5
Charles Reich
The Rise of Consumer and Environmental Protection
148
9
Unsafe at Any Speed
148
3
Ralph Nader
And No Birds Sing
151
4
Rachel Carson
Suggestions for Further Reading
155
2
1971-1980
157
48
Introduction
157
2
President Nixon's Foreign Policy
159
7
A Plan to End the War: ``Vietnamization''
159
3
The United States and China Talk, The Shanghai Communique
162
4
The Vietnam Crisis Continues
166
13
Veterans Remember
166
7
Congressional Hearing on Amnesty for Draft Evaders, 1972
173
6
Watergate
179
4
Articles of Impeachment of President Nixon
179
4
Gender Matters
183
10
America Needs an Equal Rights Amendment
183
4
Gloria Steinem
The Supreme Court Legalizes Early Abortion
187
6
Roe V. Wade
The Camp David Accords
193
3
Jimmy Carter Mediates Peace Between Israel and Egypt
193
3
Environmental Crises
196
9
Toxic Waste: What Happened at Love Canal?
196
4
The Press and the Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island
200
3
Suggestions for Further Reading
203
2
1981-1990
205
62
Introduction
205
2
The Origin of the ``Reagan Doctrine''
207
4
Totalitarianism vs. Authoritarianism
207
4
Jeane Kirkpatrick
The Conservative Social Agenda
211
12
The Forming of The Moral Majority
211
7
Jerry Falwell
The Need for Moral Reform
218
5
Ronald Reagan
Creationism vs. Evolutionism: The Arkansas Case
223
7
The Arkansas Law on ``Balanced'' Teaching
223
4
The Federal Judge's Ruling Overturning the Law
227
3
Affirmative Action
230
8
Hearing on Constitutional Amendment
230
8
The Iran-Contra Hearings
238
10
Oliver North vs. George Mitchell
238
10
The AIDS Crisis
248
10
AIDS Strikes a Popular Movie Star
248
10
Randy Shilts
The Legalization of Drugs, Pro and Con
258
9
For Legalization
258
2
Robert Sweet
Against Legalization
260
5
William Bennett
Suggestions for Further Reading
265
2
1991-1994
267
56
Introduction
267
2
The Gulf War
269
4
It Was a Famous Victory
269
2
George Bush
The Coward's Air War
271
2
Colman McCarthy
The Savings and Loan Crisis
273
6
Where Did All the Money Go?
273
6
Michael Waldman
Sexual Harassment Goes Public
279
11
Judge Clarence Thomas vs. Professor Anita F. Hill
279
11
Housing and Homelessness
290
7
Children's Defense Fund
290
7
Culture Wars
297
14
The Importance of Family Values
297
5
Dan Quayle
The Decomposition of America
302
3
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
P.C. or Not P.C.
305
6
Rosa Ehrenreich
Welfare Reform
311
6
The Need for Welfare Reform
311
2
Bill Clinton
What's Wrong with Welfare Reform
313
4
Christopher Jencks
The Elections of 1994
317
6
California's Proposition 187 on Illegal Aliens
317
3
The Republican ``Contract with America''
320
3
Suggestions for Further Reading
323