00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000005198 01211/MKRI-P/I-2005 20221017090312 0010-0520005198 0-14-015999-1 eng 305.509.73 305.509.73 POL o Polenberg, Richard One National Divisible ;class,and ethnicity in the united states since / Richard Polenberg New York : PT. Rola Sinar Perkasa, 1980 363 hlm.;20cm ; 20cm This book is the most useful and realible social history yet written on the united states in the middle decades of the twentieth century. (John Higham, John Hokins University, in the American Historical Review. Since its birth the United States has been proclaimed a classless and unified nation, as typified by the myth of the American melting pot. The reality is very different, however, as historian Richard Pollenberg convincingly demonstrates in his portrait of a country divided along the fault lines of class, race, and ethnic identity. Beginning eith a look at social divisions as they existed in the 1930s, he investigates these pattern as they were affected by World War II, the Cold War era, growth of suburbs, the New Frontier and the Great Society, and the fragmentation of Vietnam, concluding with an analysis of the effect of Watergate and the election of Jimmy Carter. The result is a remarkably vivid documentation of the change and continuity that charcterize four turbulent decades of American life. Social Classes-United States United States-Race Relation Ethnicity 221017################|##########|#eng## 01211/MKRI-P/I-2005