Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 1931
- 2 Life, Death, and Learning in the Cities
- 3 Toward a New Economy, 1890 to 1930
- 4 State Crafting – American Style
- 5 Confronting the World
- 6 Winners and Losers, 1890 to 1930
- 7 New Deal Experiments
- 8 Fighting On God’s Side
- 9 The New Aristocracy, 1946 to 1969
- 10 The Suburban Conquest of the 1960s
- 11 Empire in the American Century
- 12 The Tattered Empire of the 1970s
- 13 The Cracked Core
- 14 The American Solution, 1981 to 2001
- 15 Conservatism: Rhetoric and Realities, 1981 to 2001
- 16 The Hegemony Trap
- 17 The American Dream, 1981 to 2001
- 18 The Creative Society in Danger
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 1931
- 2 Life, Death, and Learning in the Cities
- 3 Toward a New Economy, 1890 to 1930
- 4 State Crafting – American Style
- 5 Confronting the World
- 6 Winners and Losers, 1890 to 1930
- 7 New Deal Experiments
- 8 Fighting On God’s Side
- 9 The New Aristocracy, 1946 to 1969
- 10 The Suburban Conquest of the 1960s
- 11 Empire in the American Century
- 12 The Tattered Empire of the 1970s
- 13 The Cracked Core
- 14 The American Solution, 1981 to 2001
- 15 Conservatism: Rhetoric and Realities, 1981 to 2001
- 16 The Hegemony Trap
- 17 The American Dream, 1981 to 2001
- 18 The Creative Society in Danger
- Acknowledgments
- Index
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- The Creative Society – and the Price Americans Paid for It , pp. 311 - 322Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011