American Half Century
- Author: Klein, Michael
American Half Century
- Author: Klein, Michael
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In February 1941, as the United States entered the Second World War, the press magnate Henry Luce proclaimed the birth of 'the American century', which he foresaw as a period in which free enterprise would triumph in a post-war world regulated in accordance with America's wishes: the American Dream. The American Half Century brings together distinguished political and cultural commentators such as bell hooks, Manning Marable, Todd Gitlin and Noam Chomsky, to consider the extent to which Luce's imperfect vision of a global American hegemony - America's twentieth-century 'manifest destiny' at home and abroad - was subverted by the cultural and political upheavals in the years following the Second World War. In an invigorating collection of essays - on race, gender, popular culture, the politics of resistance and oppression - the contributors trace the patterns of domestic opposition and dissent that have mirrored the growth of America's role in the 'new world order'. In doing so they offer a fresh perspective on postwar cultural history in the United States.
Contents
- Introduction: Michael L Klein The Roads Not Taken
- 1. The Cold War and the Culture of Resistance
- Norman Markowitz (Rutgers University), author of The Rise and Fall of People's Century
- 2. So That the Dead May Not be Killed Again: on Mailer and Doctorow
- Richard Godden (University of Keele) author of Fiction and Capital
- 3. The Deep Immortal Wish: Radicalism and Modern American Poetry
- Jeffrey Walsh (Manchester Polytechnic) co-editor of Tell me Lies About Vietnam
- 4. The World Turned Upside Down
- Jackie DiSalvo (City University of New York) author of War of Titans
- 5. The Meaning of the Sixties
- Abbie Hoffman author of Woodstock Nation
- 6. Students, Capital and Multiversity: From Berkely to Livingstone
- Michael L Klein
- 7. Side Saddle On the Golden Calf: American Pop Music and Pop Music Culture
- John Storey (Sunderland Polytechnic)
- 8. Looking Backward and Forward: Feminism and Motherhood
- Ann Snitow (The New School) editor of Politics of Sexuality
- 9. Black Women: Constructing the Revolutionary Subject
- Bell Hooks (Oberlin College) author of Ain't I a Woman
- 10. Malcolm X and the Continuing Crisis in Black America
- Manning Marable (Colorado University) author of Race, Reform and Rebellion
- also articles by Duncan Webster (University of Warwick), Michael Delli Carpini (Columbia University), Keven Carragee (Boston College) and Gene Michaud (University of Massachusetts)
- Epilogue: The Nineties and Beyond - interview with Noam Chomsky
