The Annals of America 17
1950-1960: Cold war in the nuclear age Cold war in the nuclear age
- Chicago : Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2003.
- 22 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
17 of 22 volumes; each volume has separate title.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1950: The Hydrogen Bomb Program / Harry S. Truman; For Abolishing the Electoral College / Henry Cabot Lodge; The American Political Party / Henry Steele Commager; The Need for a Bipartisan Foreign Policy / Wayne L. Morse; Communists in the State Department / Joseph R. McCarthy; Freedom and Individual Security / Herbert H. Lehman; "Too Old To Work" / Joe Glazer; American Film Plots / Martha Wolfenstein and Nathan Leites; Pandora's Box - Television / Gilbert Seldes; Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech / William Faulkner; United Nations Police Action in Korea / Harry S. Truman; Veto of the Internal Security Act / Harry S. Truman; The Strategy of Freedom / Dean Acheson; Military Policy for the Cold War / Herbert Hoover; The Issue of Limited War in Korea / The Joint Chiefs of Staff to General MacArthur; General MacArthur to the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Civil Supremacy Over the Military / William R. Tansill -- 1951: Message to Douglas MacArthur / Harry S. Truman; Korea and the Policy of Containment / Harry S. Truman; Farewell Address to Congress / Douglas MacArthur; Senate Report on Organized Crime; The Transformation of American Capitalism / Russell W. Davenport, et al. ; The State Church and Democratic Society / John Courtney Murray; "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" / Paul Campbell (The Weavers); Regionalism / Thomas Hart Benton; "No Word, No Wind" / Mark Van Doren; For the Expulsion of Senator McCarthy -- 1952: The Black Silence of Fear / William O. Douglas; The Limits of Power Politics / Charles B. Marshall; A Policy of Instant Retaliation / John Foster Dulles; Defense of American Territorial Policies / Eleanor Roosevelt; Veto of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act / Harry S. Truman; Productivity is an Attitude / Peter F. Drucker; American Industry and Executive Recruitment / Clarence B. Randall; Countervailing Power / John Kenneth Galbraith; America, A Frontier / William J. Grede; American Women and American Values / Florence R. Kluckhorn; On Progressive Education / / John Dewey; The Composer in Industrial America / Aaron Copland; Action painting / Harold Rosenberg; Acceptance Speech / Adlai E. Stevenson; I Shall Go to Korea / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- 1953: Containment or Liberation? / John Foster Dulles; Atomic Weapons and American Policy / J. Robert Oppenheimer; Atoms for Peace / Dwight D. Eisenhower; Mass Information or Mass Entertainment / George Gallup; Tidelands Oil for Education / Mike Mansfield; Crime, Ethnic Groups, and Urban Politics / Daniel Bell; Bop / Langston Hughes; Mass Culture / Dwight Macdonald; Life Among the Culture Vultures / Dylan Thomas; "Automation" / Joe Glazer; A Letter to Presbyterians; Reply to a Congressional Subpoena / Harry S. Truman -- 1954: The Strategy of Massive Retaliation / John Foster Dulles; Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. / Earl Warren; Democracy and Abundance / David M. Potter; The Capitalist Revolution and "The City of God" / Adolf A. Berle; Dance in America / Agnes de Mille; The Oppenheimer Case: The Opinion of AEC, The Opinion of Henry D. Smyth; A Cultural Curtain / George F. Kennan; Resolution of Condemnation of Senator McCarthy -- 1955: United States v. Lattimore / Luther Youngdahl; On Privacy / William Faulkner; Republicans, Democrats - Who's Who? / James MacGregor Burns; Federalism Today A Report to the President; King of the Tame Frontier / Clifton Fadiman; Unilateral Disarmament; Open Skies Proposal for Russia / Dwight D. Eisenhower; The American Theater / Arthur Miller; The Anglo-American Difference / W. H. Auden -- 1956: Veto of Natural Gas Bill / Dwight D. Eisenhower; Declaration of Southern Congressmen on Integration of Schools; Mixed Schools and Mixed Blood / Herbert Ravenel Sass; "This Land is Your Land" / Woody Guthrie; Automotive Research at General Motors / Harlow H. Curtice; Price Supports and Farm Surpluses / Ezra Taft Benson; The Illusion of Owning a Business / Frederick W. Copeland; Interview with Billy Graham; The Life and Death of Vaudeville / Fred Allen -- 1957: The Crisis in the Middle East / Dwight D. Eisenhower; American Speech / Max Lerner; How to Read "Li'l Abner" / Arthur J. Brodbeck and David M. White; The Myth of the Happy Worker / Harvey Swados; A Canadian Looks at America / James H. Gray; Alaska's Fight for Statehood / Ernest Gruening; The Little Rock School Crisis / Dwight D. Eisenhower; The Portent of the Moon / Walter Lippmann; "Oh Russia, Let That Moon Alone!" ; "Brainwashing" in Korea / Eugene Kinkead -- 1958: Political Credo / Lyndon B. Johnson; Wanted Two Billion Angry Men / Norman Cousins; First Step Toward Disarmament / Hubert H. Humphrey; For Continued Experimentation with Nuclear Weapons / Edward Teller and Albert L. Latter; Federal Court Congestion / Earl Warren; Proposal to Limit the Power of the Supreme Court: For Limiting Appellate Power / William E. Jenner ; Against Limiting Appellate Power / Thomas C. Hennings, Jr.; Perez v. Brownell / Earl Warren; The Nonsense About Safe Driving / John D. Williams; Health and Medical Care; The White of American Painters / Lawrence Gowing -- 1958-1959: Statehood for Hawaii: Against Statehood / George W. Malone ; For Statehood / Fred A. Seaton -- 1959: Peace Through Law / John Foster Dulles; The Greatest Invention of Them All / Henry B. du Pont; Education, Our First Line of Defense / Hyman G. Rickover; America's Cultural Relations Abroad / Robert H. Thayer -- 1960: The U-2 Incident / Dwight D. Eisenhower; The Super-City; Black, White, and the Blues / Kenneth Allsop; The Case Against Forced Integration / William D. Workman; What Is American Poetry? / Karl Shapiro; The Uncommitted Generation / David Riesman; Address to the Ministers of Houston / John F. Kennedy. Index of Authors.
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