American contradiction revolution and revenge from the 1950s to now
"How did Americans come to elect Barack Obama--and then Donald Trump? Those choices capture what Paul Starr calls the American contradiction. The whole truth about America, Starr argues in this new history of the United States since the 1950s, has never been contained in one consistent set of values...
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press ;
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. A new people, an old nation : America in the twenty-first century
- Part I. American revolutions of the twentieth century
- Midcentury normal
- Black Americans, model minority
- How sex got serious
- Half a counterrevolution
- Part II. Sleepwalking into revenge
- Americans as enemies : the 1990s as historical pivot
- Sleepwalking (1) : immigration
- Sleepwalking (2) : race
- How America stopped working for working-class Americans
- Trumpism as total revenge
- A new, old America : counterrevolution through the courts
- The American contradiction, 2024.
