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The achievement of American liberalism : the New Deal and its legacies / edited by William H. Chafe.
LIBRA E806 .M63 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Influence.
- Liberalism--United States--History--20th century.
- Liberalism.
- History.
- Political culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Political culture.
- United States--Politics and government--20th century.
- United States--Social conditions--20th century.
- Social conditions.
- Social movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Social movements.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 346 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- The New Deal established the contours and character of modern American democracy. It created an anchor and a reference point for American politics through the struggles for racial, gender, and economic equality in the five decades that followed it. From the consensus liberalism of the war years to the strident liberalism of the sixties to the besieged liberalism of the eighties and through the ongoing national debates about welfare reform and Social Security privatization, the prominent historians gathered here explore the convoluted history of the American Left.
- Contents:
- New Deal experiments / Alan Brinkley
- High tide : Roosevelt, Truman, and the Democratic party, 1932-1952 / Alonzo L. Hamby
- Roosevelt court / Melvin I. Urofsky
- Voting against the hammer and sickle : Communism as an issue in American politics / Richard M. Fried
- Ethical responsibilities of the scientist : the case of J. Robert Oppenheimer / Richard Polenberg
- Race in America : the ultimate test of liberalism / William H. Chafe
- African Americans, American Jews, and the Holocaust / Harvard Sitkoff
- Race, rock and roll, and the rigged society : the payola scandal and the political culture of the 1950s / Steven F. Lawson
- "A revolution but half accomplished" : the twentieth century's engagement with child-raising, women's work, and feminism / Cynthia Harrison
- Race, class, and gender in southern history : forces that unite, forces that divide / William H. Chafe
- Liberalism after the sixties : a reconnaissance / Otis L. Graham Jr.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0231112122
- 0231112130
- OCLC:
- 50035078
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