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Preface

In the early 1970s, I was asked to contribute a volume to a series on American history called “The History of American Society,” mine being the final volume, chronologically. It was an opportunity to present my view of the United States from World War II on, to discuss the war itself from an unorthodox point of view, and then to deal in turn with the most urgent problems of American society. For me, this meant looking critically at U.S. foreign policy, at the human consequences of the capitalist system, at the realities of power and profit, which made constitutional rights meaningless, at the struggle of black people for equality, and also to point out the countless ways in which American citizens were resisting the system and striving to fulfill the promises of the Declaration of Independence.