Gary Gerstle is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Historical Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of the forthcoming book American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (Princeton).

List of Figures xi
Acknowledgments xiii
INTRODUCTION 3
CHAPTER 1 Theodore Roosevelt's Racialized Nation, 1890-1900 14
A History of the American "Race" 17
War, Renewal, and the Problem of the "Smoked Yankee" 25.
CHAPTER 2 Civic Nationalism and Its Contradictions, 1890-1917 44
"True Americanism" 47
Racial Dilemmas 59
The New Nationalism 65
CHAPTER 3 Hardening the Boundaries of the Nation, 1917-1929 81
War and Discipline 83
"Keeping Pure the Blood of America" 95
Civic Nationalism in the New Racial Regime 115
Aborting the New Nationalism 122
CHAPTER 4 The Rooseveltian Nation Ascendant, 1930-1940 128
A Kinder and Gentler Nation Builder 131
Radicalizing the Civic Nationalist Creed 139
Conservative Counterattack 156
The Survival of Racialized Nationalism 162
CHAPTER 5 Good War,Race War,1941-1945 187
The Good War 189
Race War 201
"Something Drastic Should Be Done" The Military's Hidden Race War 210
Combat and White Male Comradeship 220
CHAPTER 6 The Cold War, Anticommunism, and Nation in Flux, 1946-1960 238
War, Repression, and Nation Building 241
The Red Scare and the Decline of Racial Nationalism 246
Racial Nationalism Redux: The Case of Immigration Reform 256
CHAPTER 7 Civil Rights, White Resistance, and Black Nationalism, 1960-1968 268
Civil Rights and Civic Nationalism 270
"I Question America" The Crisis in Atlantic City 286
"Speaking as a Victim of This American System" 295
CHAPTER 8 Vietnam, Cultural Revolt, and the Collapse of the Rooseveltian Nation, 1968-1975 311
A Catastrophic War 313
The Spread of Anti-Americanism and the Revolt against Assimilation 327
The Collapse of the Rooseveltian Nation 342
EPILOGUE Beyond the Rooseveltian Nation, 1975-2000 347
Varieties of Multiculturalism 349
"A Springtime of Hope" Ronald Reagan and the Nationalist Renaissance 357
Reviving the Liberal Nation 365
Notes 375
Index 439