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Introduction ix -- PART ONE. SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE -- Families, Children, and the State, by Robert H. Bremner 3 -- The Survival of American Feminism: The Women's Movement in the Postwar Period, by Leila J. Rupp 33 -- The Civil Rights Revolution, 1945-1960: The Gods Bring Threads to Webs Begun, by William H. Chafe 67 -- American Business in the Postwar Era, by Arthur M. Johnson 101 -- American Workers, the Labor Movement, and the Cold War, 1945-1960, by John Barnard 115 -- Rural America in an Urban Age, 1945-1960, by Thomas E. Williams 147 -- Visions of Classlessness, Quests for Dominion: American Popular Culture, 1945-1960, by Roland Marchand 163 -- PART TWO. PUBLIC PROBLEMS AND PUBLIC POLICY -- Poverty and Welfare in America, 1945-1960, by James T. Patterson 193 -- Education: Schools as Crucible in Cold War America, by Ronald Lora 223