The War Years -- Origins of the Cold War -- Truman and the Cold War -- "The Other Half of the Walnut" Social Reform and Activism in the Postwar Years -- The Paradox of Change American Society in the Postwar Years -- The Civil Rights Movement "The Gods Bring Threads to Webs Begun" -- John F. Kennedy The Reality and the Myth -- LBJ The Trial of Consensus -- Vietnam-The Early Years -- "Lyndon's War" -- Coming Apart at Home -- 1968 -- "Bringing Us Together" -- An Era of Political Malaise -- A Divided Culture, a Divided Society -- The Reagan Years -- The 1990s A Referendum on the Post-World War II Years -- 2000 and Beyond -- Barack Obama A Utopian Vision Confronts Political Reality -- The Trump Years