Blair, Roman Britain and Early England: 55 B.C. - A.D. 871 (1966)

Peter Hunter Blair.
Roman Britain and Early England: 55 B.C. - A.D. 871.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1966.

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Book Series: The Norton Library History of England

Originally published: Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1963.

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Author Information:

• Peter Hunter Blair (1912–1982), Wikipedia.
• Peter Hunter Blair. An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England, Third Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956; 1977; 2003.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Peter Hunter Blair. The World of Bede. London: Secker & Warburg, 1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Wikipedia Articles, In Our Time, Books, etc.:

• Prehistoric Britain, to A.D. 43.
• British Iron Age, 800 B.C. – A.D. 100.
• Roman Britain, First Century to early Fifth Century.
• Sub-Roman Britain (Post-Roman Britain), late Fourth Century to early Sixth Century.
• History of Anglo-Saxon England, Fifth Century to Eleventh Century.
• England in the Middle Ages, Fifth Century to Fifteenth Century.

Roman Britain Topics:

• Celts.
• Iron Age tribes in Britain.
• Melvyn Bragg, Barry Cunliffe, Alistair Moffat, Miranda Aldhouse Green, "The Celts," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 21 Feb 2002.
• Picts.
• Caledonians.
• Scotland during the Roman Empire.
• Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.
• Melvyn Bragg, Katherine Forsyth, Alex Woolf, Gordon Noble, "The Picts," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 09 Nov 2017. (Includes a reading list.)
• Roman conquest of Britain.
• Melvyn Bragg, Greg Woolf, Mary Beard, Catharine Edwards, "Roman Britain," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 1 May 2003.
• Romano-British culture.
• Roman roads in Britannia.
• Roman sites in Great Britain.
Roman locations more frequently mentioned by Blair:
• Camulodunum, Colonia Claudia Victricensis, first capital of the province Britannia, later known as Colchester.
• Londinium, later known as London.
• Lindum Colonia, later known as Lincoln.
• Eboracum, later known as York.
• Viroconium Cornoviorum, later the site of Wroxeter.
• Calleva Atrebatum, later the site of Silchester.
• Verulamium, later the site of St Albans.
• Isca Augusta, later the site of Caerleon.
• Deva Victrix, later the site of Chester.
• Corinium Dobunnorum, later the site of Cirencester.
• Venta Silurum, later the site of Caerwent.
• Boudica's uprising, 60–61.
• Melvyn Bragg, Juliette Wood, Richard Hingley, Miranda Aldhouse-Green, "Boudica," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 11 Mar 2010.
• Scotland during the Roman Empire.
• Hadrian's Wall, begun in A.D. 122.
• Melvyn Bragg, Greg Woolf, David Breeze, Lindsay Allason-Jones, "Hadrian's Wall," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 12 Jul 2012.
• Antonine Wall, begun in A.D. 142.
• Crisis of the Third Century.
• Gallic Empire, 260–274.
• Reforms of Diocletian.
• Great Conspiracy, 367–368, attacks on Roman Britain by Picts, Scotti, Attacotti, Saxons and Franks.
• Migration Period, Fourth Century to Sixth Century.
• Fall of the Western Roman Empire.
• Melvyn Bragg, Charlotte Roueché, David Womersley, Richard Alston, "The Roman Empire's Collapse in the 5th century," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 18 Mar 2004.
• End of Roman rule in Britain, late Fourth Century to mid-Fifth Century.
• Groans of the Britons, between 446 and 454.

Transition Period:

• Sub-Roman Britain (Post-Roman Britain), late Fourth Century to early Sixth Century.
• Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, mid-Fifth to early Seventh Centuries.
• Germanus of Auxerre (c.378–c.448), visited Britain around 429.
• Ambrosius Aurelianus (5th Century).
• Vortigern (5th Century).
• Extreme weather events of 535–536.
• Plague of Justinian, 541–542.
• Late Antique Little Ice Age, Sixth and Seventh Centuries.

Anglo-Saxon England Topics:

• History of Anglo-Saxon England, Fifth Century to Eleventh Century.
• Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, mid-Fifth to early Seventh Centuries.
• Heptarchy, seven kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England:
  • Kingdom of East Anglia.
  • Mercia.
  • Kingdom of Northumbria.
  • Wessex.
  • Kingdom of Essex.
  • Kingdom of Kent.
  • Kingdom of Sussex.
• Anglo-Saxon London.
• Anglo-Saxon paganism.
• Celtic Christianity.
• Lindisfarne.
• Gildas (c.500–c.570). De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae (On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain), Sixth Century.
• Columba (521–597).
• Pope Gregory I (c.540–604), Saint Gregory the Great, Pope 590–604.
• Gregorian mission, 596, a Christian mission sent by Pope Gregory the Great to convert Britain's Anglo-Saxons.
• Augustine of Canterbury (d. 604), first Archbishop of Canterbury 597–604.
• Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England, Seventh Century.
• Aidan of Lindisfarne (d. 651).
• Edwin of Northumbria (c.586–632/633), King of Deira and Bernicia 616–632/633; baptised in 627.
• Hilda of Whitby (c.614–680), abbess.
• Melvyn Bragg, John Blair, Rosemary Cramp, Sarah Foot, "St Hilda," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 5 Apr 2007.
• Wilfrid (c.633–709/710).
• Cuthbert (c.634–687).
• Lindisfarne Gospels, produced around the years 715–720.
• Melvyn Bragg, Michelle Brown, Richard Gameson, Clare Lees, "The Lindisfarne Gospels," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 20 Feb 2003.
• Bede (672/3–735). Ecclesiastical History of the English People, c.731.
  • Bede. Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Edited by Judith McClure and Roger Collins. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
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• The Age of Bede. Edited by David Hugh Farmer and J.F. Webb. Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1998.
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• Melvyn Bragg, Richard Gameson, Sarah Foot, Michelle Brown, "The Venerable Bede," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 25 Nov 2004.
• Alfred the Great (847/849–899), reign began 871.

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I thought Blair's Roman Britain and Early England was a good introduction to the period. However, the book is over 50 years old and much archeological work has been done and several notable treasure hoards found since then, so it is probably a little out-of-date on the archeological front. Also, historical interpretations may have changed or been refined, for example on topics related to Romanization (the lack thereof) and Christianity.

For a beginner like me, a great advance of the past 50 years is the publication recently of books with color illustrations (Blair's text does have excellent black-and-white maps and plates):

• Barry Cunliffe. Britain Begins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Peter Salway. The Oxford Illustrated History of Roman Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Guy de la Bédoyère. Roman Britain: A New History, Second Edition. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• James Campbell, Eric John, Patrick Wormald. The Anglo-Saxons. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1982. London: Penguin Books, 1991.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  (Heavily illustrated, only a few in color.)
• Nicholas J. Higham and Martin J. Ryan. The Anglo-Saxon World. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

For recent texts on this period see the books in The Penguin History of Britain series (An Imperial Possession; Britain After Rome) and the Short Oxford History of the British Isles series.

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Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860–1925 (1963)

John Higham.
Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860–1925.
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1955.

[Second Edition,] Corrected and with a new Preface.
New York: Atheneum, 1963. {I read a 1967 reprint of this 1963 edition.}

[Third Edition,] Corrected.
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1988.

[Fourth Edition,] With a new Epilogue.
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• John Higham (1920–2003), Wikipedia.
• John Higham, "Instead Of a Sequel, or How I Lost My Subject," Reviews in American History, Volume 28, Number 2, Pages 327-339, June 2000.
  [This essay appears as the Epilogue to the 2002 edition of Strangers in the Land.]

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Wikipedia Articles:

• History of the United States (1865–1918).
• History of the United States (1918–1945).
• Nativism: United States.
• History of immigration to the United States.

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Book Reviews:

• Google search: Higham 'Strangers in the Land'.

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I read Higham's Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860–1925 after reading

• Billington, The Protestant Crusade 1800–1860: A Study of the Origins of American Nativism (1938).

Higham commented on Billington's book in the following passage:

"By far the oldest and - in early America - the most powerful of the anti-foreign traditions came out of the shock of the Reformation. Protestant hatred of Rome played so large a part in the pre-Civil War nativist thinking that historians have sometimes regarded nativism and anti-Catholicism as more or less synonymous. This identification, by oversimplifying two complex ideas, does little justice to either. Many social and religions factors, some of them nativistic only in a very indirect sense, have contributed powerfully to anti-Catholic feeling." (page 5, Higham, Strangers in the Land)


Having read some general histories on the period 1860–1925, I think Higham's work provides some notable and distinctive insights. Some histories I've read on this period, as noted in this blog:

• White, The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896 (2017).
• Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865–1900 (2010).
• Beatty, Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865–1900 (2007).
• McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870–1920 (2003).
• Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877–1920 (1967).
• Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920 (2009).
• Diner, A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era (1998).
• Goodwyn, The Populist Moment (1978).
• Brands, The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (2002).
• Ginger, Altgeld's America (1958).
• Traxel, Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898–1920 (2006).
• Cooper, Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900–1920 (1990).
• Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American Society (2004).
• Hawley, The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order, 2e (1997).
• Leuchtenburg, The Perils of Prosperity, 1914–1932, 2e (1993).
• Miller, New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America (2003).
• Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (1931).
• Allen, The Big Change: America Transforms Itself: 1900–1950 (1952).

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Billington, The Protestant Crusade 1800-1860: A Study of the Origins of American Nativism (1938)

Ray Allen Billington.
The Protestant Crusade 1800-1860: A Study of the Origins of American Nativism.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938.
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1952
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1964. {I read this 1964 edition.}

Book Information: Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Ray Allen Billington (1903-1981), Wikipedia.
• Ray Allen Billington. Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. Second Edition, 1960. Third Edition, 1967. Fourth Edition, 1974.
  [Google Books, 1949, Full View.]
• Ray Allen Billington. The Far Western Frontier, 1830-1860. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1956.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Ray Allen Billington. Frederick Jackson Turner: Historian, Teacher, Scholar. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Ray Allen Billington. Land of Savagery, Land of Promise: The European Imagery of the American Frontier. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1981.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Ray Allen Billington. Limericks: Historical and Hysterical. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1981.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Ray Allen Billington and Martin Ridge. Western Expansion: A History of the American Frontier, Sixth Edition, An Abridgment. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 2001.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Wikipedia Articles, etc:

• History of Protestantism in the United States: 19th century: Anti-Catholic sentiment and violence.
• Anti-Catholicism: United States.
• Anti-Catholicism in the United States.
• Nativism: United States.
• Ursuline Convent riots, Charlestown, Massachusetts, August 1834.
• Philadelphia nativist riots, May and July, 1844.
• American Republican Party (1843).
• Order of the Star Spangled Banner, 1849-1850s.
• Know Nothing (Native American Party, renamed the American Party), mid-1850s.
• William Craig Brownlee (1784–1860).
  • The Religious Controversy, between the Rev. Dr. W. C. Brownlee, on the part of the Protestants, and the Rev. Dr. J. Power, Thos. C. Levins, and Felix Varela, on the part of the Roman Catholics. Philadelphia: Boyle & Benedict, 1833.
    [Archive.org.]
  • W. C. Brownlee. Letters in the Roman Catholic Controversy. New York: Published by the Author, 1834.
    [Archive.org.]
  • W. C. Brownlee. Popery: An Enemy to Civil and Religious Liberty, and Dangerous to Our Republic. New York: Bowne & Wisner - New York Protestant Press, 1836.
    [Google Books.]
• Lyman Beecher (1775–1863).
  • Lyman Beecher. A Plea for the West. Cincinnati: Truman & Smith, 1835.
    [Archive.org.]
  • Lyman Beecher. Beecher's Works. Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852 and 1853.
    [Archive.org, vol 1 of 3; Archive.org, vol 2 of 3; Archive.org, vol 3 of 3.]
  • Autobiography, Correspondence, etc. of Lyman Beecher, D.D. Charles Beecher, editor. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865.
    [Archive.org, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2.]
• Maria Monk (1816-1849). Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk. 1836.
  [Archive.org.]
• Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872).
  • Samuel F. B. Morse. Foreign Conspiracy against the Liberties of the United States. New York: Leavitt, Lord, & Co., 1835.
    [Archive.org, Library of Congress; Archive.org, California.]
  • Samuel F. B. Morse, editor. The Proscribed German Student: being a sketch of some interesting incidents in the life and melancholy death of the late Lewis Clausing. New York: Van Nostrand & Dwight, 1836.
    [Archive.org, Harvard; Archive.org, New York Public Library.]
  • Samuel F. B. Morse, editor. Confessions of a French Catholic Priest: To which are Added Warnings to the People of the United. New York: John S. Taylor, 1837.
    [Archive.org.]

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Billington's book is more about Protestants' anti-Roman Catholic agitation during the period rather than nativism. John Higham wrote on nativism and in the following passage commented on Billington's book:

"By far the oldest and - in early America - the most powerful of the anti-foreign traditions came out of the shock of the Reformation. Protestant hatred of Rome played so large a part in the pre-Civil War nativist thinking that historians have sometimes regarded nativism and anti-Catholicism as more or less synonymous. This identification, by oversimplifying two complex ideas, does little justice to either. Many social and religions factors, some of them nativistic only in a very indirect sense, have contributed powerfully to anti-Catholic feeling." (page 5, Higham, Strangers in the Land)

• John Higham. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1955; 2002. New York: Atheneum, 1963.
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The period 1800-1860 was one of exuberant religious ferment in the United States. For an introduction to this period, see:

• Daniel Walker Howe. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Wikipedia.]

My post on What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 is here.

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Petigny, The Permissive Society: America, 1941–1965 (2009)

Alan Petigny.
The Permissive Society: America, 1941–1965.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Dr. Alan Cecil Petigny, 1965-2013, History@UF ~ The Official Blog of the UF History Department, Wordpress.
• Alan Cecil Petigny Obituary, Dignity Memorial, Gonzalez Funeral Home, Tampa, Florida.
• Alan Petigny, "Norman Mailer, 'The White Negro,' and New Conceptions of Self in Post-War America," The Mailer Review, Vol. 1 No. 1, Fall 2007.
  
  Petigny writes:
  "Upon closer inspection, it would seem our distorted image of the 1950s has been caused by a failure to distinguish between social conventions and private behavior — or, to state the matter a little differently, by a failure to differentiate between what people professed publicly to believe, and what they actually practiced privately.
  If one focuses not on social conventions but, instead, on private behavior, what one sees during the early cold war years is a picture of dramatic change — a time when a religiously oriented vision was fast losing its hold over the American Mind and the American Soul. How else are we to explain the emergence of the Sexual Revolution during the forties and fifties — a development attested to by soaring rates of single-motherhood and premarital pregnancies occurring during the supposedly staid Eisenhower years?"
  
  This article summarizes several topics discussed in The Permissive Society: America, 1941–1965.

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Video: Alan Petigny

• Alan Petigny, "Postwar Pluralism, Modern Psychology, and the Rise of Civil Rights," James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University, 28 February 2011.
  • James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University.
• Alan Petigny, "Black Militancy and White Violence: The Collapse of Authority During the Late '60s and Early '70s," Annual Black History Month Event, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University, 28 February 2013.
  • James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University.
• Carson Holloway, Wilfred M. McClay, Charles Murray, Alan Petigny, James Piereson, "Impact of the 1960s Cultural Revolution," James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, American History TV, C-SPAN.org, 21 May 2013.
  • Alan Petigny's talk begins at time 42:00.
  • James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University.
  • Association for the Study of Free Institutions.
  • Carson Holloway, Political Science, University of Nebraska, Omaha.
  • Wilfred M. McClay, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
  • Wilfred M. McClay, Wikipedia.
  • Charles Murray, American Enterprise Institute.
  • Charles Murray (b. 1943), Wikipedia.
  • James Piereson, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
  • James Piereson, Wikipedia.

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Book Reviews:

• Jesse Walker, "Beyond Pleasantville: Permissiveness wasn’t born in the ’60s," Reason, January 2010.
• Allan C. Carlson, "The Myth of the Fifties," Modern Age, Volume 53, Number 1-2, Winter-Spring 2011.
• W. Andrew Achenbaum, Book Review," Journal of Social History, Volume 44, Number 3, Pages 958-960, Spring 2011.
• Gary Donaldson, "Book Review," American Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 2, Pages 479–480, April 2011.
• Joanne Meyerowitz, "The Liberal 1950s? Reinterpreting Postwar American Sexual Culture," in Karen Hagemann and Sonya Michel, editors, Gender and the Long Postwar: Reconsiderations of the United States and the Two Germanys, 1945-1989, Johns Hopkins University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2014, Pages 297-319.
  (This is not a book review but an essay that mentions Petigny's work.)

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Wikipedia Articles:

• 1940s.
• 1950s.
• History of the United States (1918–1945).
• History of the United States (1945–1964).
• Post–World War II economic expansion.
• Presidency of Harry S. Truman, April 1945 – January 1953.
• Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 1953 – January 1961.
• United States in the 1950s.

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Jezer, The Dark Ages: Life in the United States 1945-1960 (1981)

Marty Jezer.
The Dark Ages: Life in the United States 1945-1960.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press, 1981.

Book Information: Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Martin Jezer (1940–2005), Wikipedia.
• Judy Kuster, Marty Jezer Memorial Webpage, 13 June 2005.
• Marty Jezer. Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1992.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Marty Jezer. Stuttering: A Life Bound Up In Words. New York: Basic Books, 1997.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Video:

Professor Patterson mentioned Jezer's book during the Q&A session of this talk:

James T. Patterson, "U.S. in the 1940s, 50s and 60s," Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, C-SPAN.org, 24 May 1997.

• James T. Patterson (b. 1935), Wikipedia.

Other books mentioned in Patterson's talk:

• James T. Patterson. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Thomas Hine. Populuxe. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. New York: The Overlook Press, 2007.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• David M. Potter. People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• John Kenneth Galbraith. The Affluent Society. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Gunnar Myrdal and others. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944. London: Routledge, 2017.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com, volume 1.]
• Nicholas Lemann. The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. New York: Vintage Books, 1992.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Aftermath of World War II.
• Origins of the Cold War.
• Cold War.
• Post–World War II economic expansion.
• History of the United States (1945–1964).
• Presidency of Harry S. Truman, April 1945 – January 1953.
• Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 1953 – January 1961.
• United States in the 1950s.

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Jezer's interpretation of U.S. history comes from a radical leftist point-of-view. (More explicitly, by "leftist" I mean the communist-socialist segment of the political spectrum. Part One of the book describes the suppression of communists and communism during the postwar era. Communists lost power in and funding from labor unions. Communists and socialists rebranded themselves as "progressives" but lost power in the Democratic Party to "corporate liberals." Jezer has a doctrinaire aversion to business corporations and examines social factors that undermined working class solidarity. The era was indeed a Dark Age ... for communists.) Jezer explains in his Introduction that the book provides an answer the question: what was it about the society of 1945-1960 that motivated the leftist activism of the 1960s and 1970s? The book tells more about how leftists of the 1960s and 1970s viewed their own past rather than describing the U.S. as experienced by most people during the postwar era, though it does that too.

Readers more interested in U.S. history during 1945-1960 might consider these other books, as noted in this blog:

• Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (1996).
• Diggins, The Proud Decades: America in War and Peace, 1941-1960 (1988).
• McCullough, Truman (1992).
• Halberstam, The Fifties (1993).
• Hitchcock, The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s (2018).
• Petigny, The Permissive Society: America, 1941–1965 (2009).

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