The Achievement of American Liberalism : : The New Deal and Its Legacies / / ed. by William Chafe.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Brinkley, Alan,; Chafe, William H.,; Fried, Richard M.,; Graham, Otis L.,; Hamby, Alonzo L.,; Harrison, Cynthia,; Lawson, Steven F.,; Polenberg, Richard,; Sitkoff, Harvard,; Urofsky, Melvin I.,
• HerausgeberIn: Chafe, William,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)

The New Deal established the contours and character of modern American democracy. It created an anchor and a reference point for American liberal politics through the struggles for racial, gender, and economic equality in the five decades that followed it. Indeed, the ways that liberalism has change...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INTRODUCTION
• 1 THE NEW DEAL EXPERIMENTS
• 2 HIGH TIDE: ROOSEVELT, TRUMAN, AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, 1932-1952
• 3 THE ROOSEVELT COURT
• 4 VOTING AGAINST THE HAMMER AND SICKLE: COMMUNISM AS AN ISSUE IN AMERICAN POLITICS
• 5 THE ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SCIENTIST: THE CASE OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
• 6 RACE IN AMERICA: THE ULTIMATE TEST OF LIBERALISM
• 7 AFRICAN AMERICANS, AMERICAN JEWS, AND THE HOLOCAUST
• 8 RACE, ROCK AND ROLL, AND THE RIGGED SOCIETY: THE PAYOLA SCANDAL AND THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF THE 1950S
• 9 "A REVOLUTION BUT HALF ACCOMPLISHED": THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'S ENGAGEMENT WITH CHILD-RAISING, WOMEN'S WORK, AND FEMINISM
• 10 RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER IN SOUTHERN HISTORY: FORCES THAT UNITE, FORCES THAT DIVIDE
• 11 LIBERALISM AFTER THE SIXTIES: A RECONNAISSANCE
• INDEX