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May
11-25, 2001 - Vol. 7, No. 10
This section of America, Vol. 2 follows final
months of 1950, from the rush of Jackson Pollock, through
China entering the Korean War, MacArthur hungering to
use atomic bombs, Guys & Dolls opens, with Marlon
Brando, and William Faulkner goes to Oslo to pick up
his Nobel Prize for Literature!
April 27-May
11, 2001 - Vol. 7, No. 9
This section of America, Vol. 2 looks at the
great leftist scholar F. O. Matthiessen, New Art, the
beginning of the Korean War, and the arrest of Julius
Rosenberg.
April
13-27, 2001 - Vol. 7, No. 8
This section of America, Vol. 2 tracks the months
from the end of 1949, with Einstein's General Theory
of Relativity, through early 1950, the famous Brinks
robbery, the 2nd Alger Hiss trial, Truman's decision
to build the h-bomb, the CIA purchases the film rights
to 1984, and a car ride up Rte 1 with Dylan Thomas,
John Cage and Merce Cunningham.
March 30 - April 13, 2001 - Vol. 7, No. 7
This section of America, Vol. 2 follows the nation
from the spring of 1948, through Alger Hiss's first
trial, the founding of the People's Republic of China
and the battle, "Who lost China?", Einstein's General
Theory of Relativity, and the ghastly promulgation of
Apartheid in South Africa.
March 16-30, 2001 - Vol. 7, No. 6
This section of America, Vol. 2 follows the nation
from the surprise victory of Harry Truman in 1948, through
his Four Point Program, plus the indictment of Alger
Hiss, the victory of Mao in China in early 1949, the
invention of the 33 1/3 r.p.m. record, and the founding
of NATO.
March 2-16, 2001 - Vol. 7, No. 5
This section of America, Vol. 2 traces the middle
and latter of 1948, from the establishment of England's
national health care system, through the beginning and
end of the band The Weavers, fear of the Iron Lung,
and the 1948 fall Presidential campaign where any American
who didn't know it learned that the popular vote does
not appoint a president.
February 16 - March 2, 2001 - Vol. 7, No. 4
This section of America, Vol. 2 follows the first
few months of 1948, from the groovy fins on the new
Caddies, through the assassination of Gandhi, the creation
of Israel, the political conventions that summer, and
on to the establishment of the excellent national health
care system in England!
February 2-16, 2001 - Vol. 7, No. 3
This section of America, Vol. 2 traces the latter
part of 1947, from the UFO crash at Roswell, through
the birth of Levittown, through the ghastly hearings
in Hollywood of the House Un-American Activities Committee,
and the rise of the Hollywood Ten, to Mahalia Jackson's
"Move On Up A Little Higher."
January
19-February 2, 2001 - Vol. 7, No. 2
This section of America, Vol. 2 follows the great
voyage of Exodus 47 from Baltimore to Palestine in 1947,
through the beginning of Jackie Robinson's major league
career and on through the tribulations of the Taft-Hartley
Act to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, ending
just before the flying disk at Roswell.
January 5 - 19, 2001 - Vol.7, No.1
This
section of America, Vol. 2 traces the nation's
history from July of 1946, through the birth of the
Cold War, through early 1947 and the American involvement
in the politics of Greece.
December
8-22, 2000 - Vol. 6, No. 25
This section of America, Vol. 2 follows the nation
through the fall of 1945, with the Great War thank God
finally over, then the Nurenberg trials, the Bring our
Boys Home movement, through the early triumphs of Charlie
Parker and Dizzie Gillespie.
November
24-December 8, 2000 - Vol. 6, No. 24
This time-flow from America, Vol. 2 traces events
from the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, through the surrender of Ja pan, through the
demands of Gandhi that Britain "quit India,"
and the rumblings that preceded the founding of the
State of Israel, plus the Left wins in France in the
fall of '45
November 10-24, 2000 - Vol. 6, No. 23
This sequence from America,
Vol. 2 follows those historic weeks during which,
with Roosevelt gone, and a new Truman in place, the
men who controlled the bomb shoved mightily to have
it dropped on Japan; the bomb was tested in July in
New Mexico, and then dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on
August 6, 1945
October 27-November 10, 2000 - Vol. 6, No. 22
This section of America, Vol.
2 traces our history from Franklin Roosevelt's fatal
stroke in April of '45, through the telling of Truman
about the bomb and the liberation of Belsen and Buchenwald,
the unconditional surrender of the Germans, and the
wild parties celebrating VE Day on May 8.
October 13-27, 2000 - Vol. 6, No. 21
This section of America, Vol.
2 follows the sad, ineluctable path of 1945, from
the secret deals negotiated at Yalta in February, through
the victory in Iwo Jima, the death of Anne Frank, and
the great Franklin Rooseveltıs final vacation.
September
29-October 13, 2000 - Vol. 6, No. 20
This section of America, Vol. 2 traces from the
end of 1944, with the taking of the Philippines by the
Allies, through the premiere of Appalachian Spring,
through the election of Franklin Roosevelt to a 4th
term, through the February 1945 Yalta Conference, with
its fateful deliberations, and FDR very ill.
September 15-29, 2000 - Vol. 6, No. 19
This section of America, Vol.
2 tracks the war-stormed months of 1944, from the
attempted assassination of Hitler in July through the
liberation of Guam, and Paris, the V-2s on London, and
the defeat of the Morgenthau Plan to limit post-war
agricultural Germany to an agricultural economy.
September 1-15, 2000 - Vol. 6, No. 18
This section of America, Vol. 2 follows the
sizzling months of 1944: the driving of the Nazis from
Rome, the great invasion at Normandy, the GI Bill of
Rights, the Bretton Woods Conference, the taking of
Saipan and the tossing of Henry Wallace from the Democratic
ticket and the selection of Harry Truman as VP candidate.
August
18-September 1, 2000 - Vol. 6, No. 17
This section of America, Vol. 2 follows the first
months of 1944 beginning with Roosevelt's "Second
Bill of Rights" speech of January, though the Allied
victory in the Marshall Islands, through the grim word
of FDR's heart condition, through the prying of VP Henry
Wallace from the November ticket, through the refusal
of The US to bomb the rail lines to the extermination
camps.
August 4 - 18,
2000 Vol.6, No.16
This section of America, Vol. 2 traces the months
of 1943 beginning with the Allied victory in North Africa
in May, though the fierce debates over the timing of
the Allied European invasion, through the good news
of mass production of penicillin, of invaluable help
in healing war injuries!
July
21 - August 4, 2000 Vol.6, No.15
This section of America, Vol. 2 follows important
months in 1942, beginning with the Battle of Midway
which opened the door to the American counteroffensive
in the Pacific, through the start of the Manhattan project
in September, and the beginning of the Seige of Stalingrad.
July 7 - 21,
2000 Vol.6, No.14
This section of America, Vol. 2 traces the last
few months of 1942, beginning with Siege of Stalingrad,
the creation of the Atomic Pile in Chicago, the Day
of Mourning and Prayer, the New Years's Eve watching
of Casablanca by President Roosevelt, and other
events.
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