A comprehensive narrative survey of US History since WWII, this volume focuses on the public life of the American people. It weaves together political, economic, foreign policy, and military history, while incorporating much of the new social, demographic, environmental, and cultural history of the period. The volume examines the American people since 1945, the rise of the cold war, postwar America, the politics of consensus, new frontiers, great society and Vietnam, rebellion and reaction, Détente, China and Vietnam, going global and the new millennium. For individuals interested in a comprehensive analysis of recent American history.