Ebook: American empire: the rise of a global power, the democratic revolution at home, 1945-2000

Prologue: E pluribus unum -- Part I: Pax Americana (1945-1953). Power and politics ; Cold War ; Stalemate in Washington ; National security state -- Part II: The high tide of liberal democracy (1954-1974). Suburban nation ; "We the Union Army" ; "Hour of Maximum Danger" ; The democratic revolution ; Apocalypse now ; Sixties to Seventies, dreams to nightmares ; The end of the American century -- Part III: The resurrection of corporate capitalism (1975-1989). The landscape of decline ; The politics of stagnation ; The corporate revolution ; The Reagan revolution ; Cold War redux -- Part IV: The new world order (1990-2000). "I'm Running Out of Demons" ; Triangulation ; Living large -- Epilogue: America after 9/11.;A compelling look at the movements and developments that propelled America to world dominance beginning in 1945 and moving through McCarthyism and Vietnam, from the Great Society to Morning in America.