Postwar America is an up-to-date history of the United States from the presidency of Harry Truman at the end of World War II to the presidency of Barack Obama today. By taking an interdisciplinary approach， Professor Paul Levine combines political， social and cultural history to explore American life during the last seven decades. Among the themes he discusses are： racism and mulficulturalism；civil rights and civil society； the Cold War and Soft Power； immigration and the American Dream. Postwar America is a distillation of lectures Paul Levine delivered at two Fulbright-sponsored seminars for Chinese postgraduate students held at Shantou University and Beijing Foreign Studies University in 2009 and 2010. The lectures have been revised to serve as a general introduction for all Chinese university students. Paul Levine is Professor Emeritus in American Literature at Copenhagen University and a former Fulbright Professor at East China Normal University.

　　Paul Levine is Emeritus Professor ofAmerican Literature at Copenhagen University. He was born inBrooklyn， New York，and attended Wesleyan and Princeton Universitiesbefore receiving a Ph.D. in the History of American Civilizationfrom Harvard.Levine taught at Wesleyan， Rochester and York（Toronto） Universities before becoming the first Professor ofAmerican Literature in Copenhagen （1975-2006）. He also held theSalgo Chair in American Studies at Eotvos Lorand University inBudapest （1986-9） and directed the Athens American Studies Seminarfor fifteen years （1994-2009）. Professor Levine publishes widely onliterature， art， film and culture. He collaborated with E. L.Doctorow on a volume of the novelisfs Screenplays （Johns HopkinsUniversity Press， 2003） and a new edition of America Since 1945：The American Moment，（with Harry Papasotiriou） was published byPalgrave in 2011. He has twice received royal honors in Denmark andholds the title of Ridder af Dannebrogorden， 1st Kl. （2000）.Professor Levine first went to China in 2001 at the invitation ofthe U.S. State Department to help create a graduate program inAmerican Studies at East China Normal University. In 2004 he wasawarded a Fulbright Professorship at ECNU for three semesters. In2005 ECNU granted him the title of Guest Professor. After retiringfrom Copenhagen in 2006， he served as director of regional studiesand the new Center for International Studies （2007-11） at ShantouUniversity. He and his wife， Lily Varidald-Levine， now live inCopenhagen and Athens.