The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered

American Politics and Society in the Postwar Era

Buch | Softcover

306 Seiten

2019
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
9780813064444 (ISBN)

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Leading scholars confront the longstanding theory that a liberal consensus shaped the United States after World War II. The essays draw on fresh research to examine how the consensus related to key policy areas, how it was viewed by different factions and groups, what its limitations were, and why it fell apart in the late 1960s.

Here, leading scholars-including Hodgson himself-confront the longstanding theory that a liberal consensus shaped the United States after World War II. The essays draw on fresh research to examine how the consensus related to key policy areas, how it was viewed by different factions and groups, what its limitations were, and why it fell apart in the late 1960s.

Robert Mason, professor of history at the University of Edinburgh, is the author of The Republican Party and American Politics from Hoover to Reagan. Iwan Morgan, professor of United States studies at University College London, is the author of Reagan: American Icon and coeditor of From Sit-Ins to SNCC: The Student Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

Introduction: Reconsidering the Liberal Consensus
Robert Mason and Iwan Morgan
1. Revisiting the Liberal Consensus – Godfrey Hodgson
2. Historians and the Postwar Liberal Consensus – Michael Heale
3. The Reach and Limits of the Liberal Consensus – Gary Gerstle
4. The 1930s Roots of the Postwar "Consensus" – Wendy L. Wall
5. The Keynesian Consensus and Its Limits – Iwan Morgan
6. Social Welfare in the United States, 1945–1960 – David Stebenne
7. Red-Hunting and Internal Security: Conflict in the Age of Consensus – Alex Goodall
8. Containment: A Consensual or Contested Foreign Policy? – Andrew Preston
9. Sunbelt Patriarchs: Lyndon B. Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the New Deal Dissensus – Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
10. "Down the Middle of the Road": Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican Party, and the Politics of Consensus and Conflict, 1949–1961 – Robert Mason
11. "We Have Run Out of Poor People": The Democratic Party's Crisis of Identity in the 1950s – Jonathan Bell
12. Billy Graham's Neo-evangelical Triumph and the Limits of the Liberal Consensus – Uta A. Balbier
13. Gender in an Era of Liberal Consensus – Helen Laville
14. Memories of the Movement: Civil Rights, the Liberal Consensus, and the March on Washington Twenty Years Later – George Lewis
Contributors
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Erscheinungsdatum	23.11.2019
Verlagsort	Florida
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 233 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-13	9780813064444 / 9780813064444
Zustand	Neuware