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A Companion To Post-1945 America Is An Original Collection Of 34 Essays By Key Scholars On The History And Historiography Of Post-1945 America.covers Society And Culture, People And Movements, Politics And Foreign Policysurveys And Evaluates The Best Scholarship On Every Important Era And Topicincludes Book Review Section On Essential Readings A Companion To Post-1945 America; Contents; Illustrations; About The Contributors; Introduction; Part I Society And Culture; 1 Family And Demography In Postwar America: A Hazard Of New Fortunes?; 2 The Power Of Place: Race, Political Economy, And Identity In The Postwar Metropolis; 3 American Religion Since 1945; 4 Time Out: Leisure And Tourism; 5 Mass Media: From 1945 To The Present; 6 What The Traffic Bares: Popular Music Back In The Usa; 7 The Visual Arts In Post-1945 America; 8 American Intellectual History And Social Thought Since 1945; Part Ii People And Movements 9 American Political Culture Since 194510 Hyphen Nation: Ethnicity In American Intellectual And Political Life; 11 Labor During The American Century: Work, Workers, And Unions Since 1945; 12 The Historiography Of The Struggle For Black Equality Since 1945; 13 Postwar Women's History: The Second Wave Or The End Of The Family Wage?; 14 Sexuality And The Movements For Sexual Liberation; 15 A Movement Of Movements: The Definition And Periodization Of The New Left; 16 The Triumph Of Conservatives In A Liberal Age; 17 Modern Environmentalism; Part Iii Politics And Foreign Policy 18 Beyond The Presidential Synthesis: Reordering Political Time19 Mccarthyism And The Red Scare; 20 The Politics Of The Least Dangerous Branch: The Court, The Constitution, And Constitutional Politics Since 1945; 21 The Cold War In Europe; 22 Off The Beach: The United States, Latin America, And The Cold War; 23 The United States And East Asia In The Postwar Era; 24 Washington Quagmire: Us Presidents And The Vietnam Wars - A Pattern Of Intervention; 25 The End Of The Cold War; 26 From The Atom