Chafe, The Unfinished Journey - America Since World War II

Abstract

This is an updated edition of a popular text by the noted Duke University historian William H. Chafe. The original 1986 volume closed with the re-election of Ronald Reagan; the second edition carries the reader through the presidential campaign of 1988. Chafe's new material depicts a beleaguered Reagan hard pressed by the Iran-Contra scandal, the abortive nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, and a weakening American economy, who, consistent with his legendary luck, nevertheless manages to rehabilitate his reputation with the INF Treaty with the Soviets and an almost miraculous thaw in the Cold War.