Includes index.

The rise of the war generation. Profile: Automania -- Women and the family on the suburban frontier. Profile: Kinsey and the sexual revolution -- The origins of the Cold War. Profile: The advent of television -- The Truman stalemate. Profile: The admirals revolt -- War in Korea. Profile: Jonas Salk and the conquest of polio -- McCarthyism and its uses. Profile: The dream factory strikes back -- The Eisenhower equilibrium. Profile: The religious boom -- Waging peace in a thermonuclear age. Profile: The beat generation -- Civil rights: The revolution begins. Profile: The rise of rock and roll -- The center cannot hold.