From a series that examines the major historical topics through a mixture of narrative and analysis of the key issues involved, this book charts America's changing social and political scene through it's parade of presidents from 1945 to the late 1980s. It examines the character of each presidency, from Truman to Reagan, holding their home and foreign policies up for analysis, looking at how the American public reacted, and why. Documents, photographs, opinion polls and cartoons are used to look at events from various perspectives. For example, how did McCarthy manage to raise such a pitch of anti-communist paranoia in the USA in the 1950s? Why did Johnson send US troops to fight in Vietnam, and why did public opinion come to oppose this involvement so strongly?
- ISBN10 1852106603
- ISBN13 9781852106607
- Publish Date 31 October 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 April 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hachette Children's Group
- Imprint Hodder Wayland
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 64
- Language English