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O'Neill, William Lawrence was born on April 18, 1935 in Big Rapids, Michigan, United States. Son of John Patrick and Helen Elizabeth (Marsh) O'N.
(Where others have viewed the fifties as an era of conform...)
Where others have viewed the fifties as an era of conformity, William O'Neillsees a confident time of buoyant expectations and rare national unity.
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(Rutgers social historian O'Neill (Coming Apart recalls th...)
Rutgers social historian O'Neill (Coming Apart recalls the postWorld War II era when millions of veterans with government aid went to college, bought suburban homes and later, with growing families, prospered enough to relish such cultural artifacts as barbecues, TV and shopping malls reached by super autos on superhighwaysclearly a high point in U.S. social history. The author, however, has trouble sustaining his "high" as he examines more turbulent aspects of the period. In this survey-summary, he also writes about such national traumas as the Cold War, Korea, Sputnik and the space race, McCarthyism and the Red Scare, the Eisenhower "equilibrium" and the rise of Nixon,the H-bomb and test-ban negotiations, beatniks and Elvis Presley, racial conflict and Martin Luther King Jr. A fine read for those who want a reminder of the so-called good old days, or to whom the era is ancient history. (January Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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( The all-too-brief period of relative tranquility that e...)
The all-too-brief period of relative tranquility that extended from the end of the Cold War to the beginning of the War on Terror is the subject of William L. O'Neill's brilliant new study of recent American history. Mr. O'Neill's sharp eye for the telling incident and the apt quotation combine with an acute historical judgment to make A Bubble in Time a compellingly readable informal history. The first Gulf War and President Clinton's interventions abroad notwithstanding, American spirits were freer from fear than they had been since the 1920s, the author argues. No world war loomed before the United States, and after the Berlin Wall came down the specter of nuclear annihilation faded as well. A brief recession in the 1990s gave way to the most prosperous years Americans had known for decades. Unlike in the 1980s under Ronald Reagan, the increase in national wealth trickled down to the middle class thanks to an unusual rise in productivity and large infrastructure investments by firms in the "new economy." To general amazement, crime rates began falling after almost thirty years of increases, so that Americans were happier, safer, and materially better off than before. Although the Republican party turned to the dark side, Mr. O'Neill writes, peace and prosperity enabled people to enjoy the finer things in life and to lavish their concerns on political correctness, the decline of the military, the troubles of higher education, and the manifestations of an out-of-control popular culture he calls "Tabloid Nation"—the trials of O.J. Simpson and President Clinton, SUVs, cell phones, and bimbo eruptions. Mr. O'Neill explores them all, and more, with insight and wit. "It was all too good to last," he tells us. "Reality intruded again with the dot.com crash in 2000 and the terrorist attacks of 2001. Still, we will always have Paris Hilton." With 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.
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"This is the first book to deal directly with the failure of feminism as a social force in America; to tie together brilliantly the scattered people and events in the the history of American women; and to examine seriously the feminist experience after 1920." A lively history, written with charm and bristling with new interpretations of the first wave of feminism in America from its first stirrings in the 1830s to the 1960s.
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(A concise review of the relationship between Americans sy...)
A concise review of the relationship between Americans sympathetic to Stalinism and their opposition.
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(Poet and Journalist, Max Eastman is perhaps the most famo...)
Poet and Journalist, Max Eastman is perhaps the most famous example of an American intellectual who during his life moved across the entire political spectrum. This reexamination of his career and his place in history reveals the dynamics behind his several careers and political transformations, offering new insight into one of the most influential writers of this century. It is a model biography of a key intellectual of the twentieth century. It is also both a perspective social history of his times and a study in the history of ideas. The book will find a welcome place in history, literature, and political science courses, as well as in personal libraries.
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O'Neill, William Lawrence was born on April 18, 1935 in Big Rapids, Michigan, United States. Son of John Patrick and Helen Elizabeth (Marsh) O'N.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Michigan, 1957; Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1958; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1963.
Assistant professor of history, U. Colorado, 1964-1966; assistant professor, University of Wisconsin, 1966-1969; associate professor, University of Wisconsin, 1969-1971; professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, since 1971. Visiting assistant professor of University Pittsburgh, 1963-1964. Visiting associate professor of University Pennsylvania, 1969-1970.
(Rutgers social historian O'Neill (Coming Apart recalls th...)
("This is the first book to deal directly with the failure...)
(Poet and Journalist, Max Eastman is perhaps the most famo...)
( The all-too-brief period of relative tranquility that e...)
(Where others have viewed the fifties as an era of conform...)
(A concise review of the relationship between Americans sy...)
(American High: The Years Of Confidence, 1945-1960, by O'N...)
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(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
( William L. O'Neill's masterly chronicle of the twentiet...)
Member American History Association.
Married Elizabeth Carol Knollmueller, August 20, 1960. Children: Cassandra Leigh, Catherine Lorraine.