Bøker av M. J. Heale

The contemporary history of the United States has been shaped by the country's interaction and relationships with the outside world. This book focuses on American political and socioeconomic history in this 'internationalizing' context, and includes detailed accounts of the presidencies of Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W.

In American Anticommunism Heale examines the various forms American reactions to this perceived threat have taken, from the attacks on workers in the Haymarket Riot to the widespread "witch huntsof Senator Joe McCarthy.

No other decade of the 20th century has acquired the mythological status of the 1960s. Focusing on the public affairs of America, this book introduces the reader to the major changes which governed life in the 60s and examines the 1960s as a decade caught between one America and another.