The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered
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The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered

American Politics and Society in the Postwar Era

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eBook - ePub

The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered

American Politics and Society in the Postwar Era

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Reconsidering the Liberal Consensus
  7. 1. Revisiting the Liberal Consensus
  8. 2. Historians and the Postwar Liberal Consensus
  9. 3. The Reach and Limits of the Liberal Consensus
  10. 4. The 1930s Roots of the Postwar “Consensus”
  11. 5. The Keynesian Consensus and Its Limits
  12. 6. Social Welfare in the United States, 1945–1960
  13. 7. Red-Hunting and Internal Security: Conflict in the Age of Consensus
  14. 8. Containment: A Consensual or Contested Foreign Policy?
  15. 9. Sunbelt Patriarchs: Lyndon B. Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the New Deal Dissensus
  16. 10. “Down the Middle of the Road”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican Party, and the Politics of Consensus and Conflict, 1949–1961
  17. 11. “We Have Run Out of Poor People”: The Democratic Party’s Crisis of Identity in the 1950s
  18. 12. Billy Graham’s Neo-evangelical Triumph and the Limits of the Liberal Consensus
  19. 13. Gender in an Era of Liberal Consensus
  20. 14. Memories of the Movement: Civil Rights, the Liberal Consensus, and the March on Washington Twenty Years Later
  21. Contributors
  22. Index