The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered (eBook)

American Politics and Society in the Postwar Era

Robert Mason, Iwan Morgan (Herausgeber)

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2019
306 Seiten
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
9780813065274 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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When first published in 1976, Godfrey Hodgson’s America in Our Time won immediate recognition as a major interpretive study of the postwar era. In The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered, leading scholars—including Hodgson himself—confront his long-standing theory that a “liberal consensus” shaped the United States after World War II. These essays offer new insights into the era and diverging opinions on one of the most influential interpretations of mid-twentieth-century U.S. history.

Autor

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.

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Content

Introduction: Reconsidering the Liberal Consensus 1

Robert Mason and Iwan Morgan

1. Revisiting the Liberal Consensus 12

Godfrey Hodgson

2. Historians and the Postwar Liberal Consensus 29

Michael Heale

3. The Reach and Limits of the Liberal Consensus 52

Gary Gerstle

4. The 1930s Roots of the Postwar “Consensus” 67

Wendy L. Wall

5. The Keynesian Consensus and Its Limits 86

Iwan Morgan

6. Social Welfare in the United States, 1945–1960 108

David Stebenne

7. Red-Hunting and Internal Security: Conflict in the Age

of Consensus 127

Alex Goodall

8. Containment: A Consensual or Contested Foreign Policy? 148

Andrew Preston

9. Sunbelt Patriarchs: Lyndon B. Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the New Deal Dissensus 167

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 186

Robert Mason

11. “We Have Run Out of Poor People”: The Democratic Party’s Crisis of Identity in the 1950s 208

Jonathan Bell

12. Billy Graham’s Neo-evangelical Triumph and the Limits of the Liberal Consensus 227

Uta A. Balbier

13. Gender in an Era of Liberal Consensus 245

Helen Laville

14. Memories of the Movement: Civil Rights, the Liberal Consensus, and the March on Washington Twenty Years Later 262

George Lewis

Contributors 283

Index 287

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.10.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Cold War • Economic Growth • ideological conflict • liberal consensus • New Deal • Postwar America
• ISBN-13: 9780813065274 / 9780813065274