The Making of Modern America: The Nation from 1945 to the Present

(Hardback, Third Edition)

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The third edition of Dr. Gary A. Donaldsons highly successful textbook The Making of Modern America, introduces students to the cultural, social and political paths the United States has traveled from the end of WWII to the present day. While deftly cataloging the sweeping changes and major events in America from Dewey Defeats Truman through the election of Donald Trump, this newly updated edition never loses touch with that American history taking place at the level of the people. This edition details not just the United States rich cultural history, but elegantly repositions it as integral to our understanding of any portion of this countrys past. Donaldson provides a factual foundation for students and then pushes them to interpret those facts, framing the discussions essential to any complete study of American history.

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The third edition of Gary A. Donaldsons The Making of Modern America is a splendid history of the countrys complex saga from its post-World War II adjustments, to the era of presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Donaldson punctuates each of his lucid and fast-paced chapters with a reading, a document, and questionspedagogy that supplements or complicates his narrative. Students and their teachers will welcome Donaldsons sure-handed analysis of Americas modern eraa time of momentous challenges to its status as the worlds richest and most innovative country. -- John David Smith, Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
The Making of Modern America does an outstanding job of capturing postwar Americas Zeitgeist through a comprehensive but clear treatment of the eras personalities, politics, and popular culture. The Making of Modern Americas clarity and judgment would fit well into the second half of the U.S. History survey, and the work would serve very well for an upper-level course on the United States since the end of World War II. Finally, an integrated postwar textbook for undergraduates! -- Jeffrey P. Moran, Professor of History, University of Kansas

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Gary A. Donaldson is the Keller Foundation in American History at Xavier University of Louisiana. His other books include The First Modern Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon and the Election of 1960; Liberalisms Last Hurrah: The Presidential Campaign of 1964; Truman Defeats Dewey; and America at War since 1945, among others. He lives in Mandeville, Louisiana.