The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered [electronic resource] : American Politics and Society in the Postwar Era / edited by Robert Mason and Iwan Morgan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morgan, Iwan W., editor.

Mason, Robert, 1970- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberalism--United States--History--20th century.

Liberalism.

United States--Politics and government--1961-1963.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.

United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2017.

Summary:

This work interrogates the idea that a "liberal consensus" uniformly shaped the United States after World War II. The volume's findings indicate that political, cultural, and ideological conflict was never extinguished and that whatever liberal consensus existed was elitist and limited. These limitations included the seeds of its own destruction in the late 1960s and beyond.

Contents:

Introduction: reconsidering the liberal consensus / Robert Mason and Iwan Morgan

Revisiting the liberal consensus / Godfrey Hodgson

Historians and the postwar liberal consensus / Michael Heale

The reach and limits of the liberal consensus / Gary Gerstle

The 1930s roots of the postwar "consensus" / Wendy L. Wall

The Keynesian consensus and its limits / Iwan Morgan

Social welfare in the United States, 1945-1960 / David Stebenne

Red-hunting and internal security: conflict in the age of consensus / Alex Goodall

Containment: a consensual or contested foreign policy? / Andrew Preston

Sunbelt patriarchs: Lyndon B. Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the New Deal dissensus / Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

"Down the middle of the road": Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican Party, and the politics of consensus and conflict, 1949-1961 / Robert Mason

"We have run out of poor people": the Democratic Party's crisis of identity in the 1950s / Jonathan Bell

Billy Graham's neo-evangelical triumph and the limits of the liberal consensus / Uta A. Balbier

Gender in an era of liberal consensus / Helen Laville

Memories of the movement: civil rights, the liberal consensus, and the March on Washington twenty years later / George Lewis.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-5323-4

0-8130-5276-9

OCLC:

978539446