Rethinking the 1950s - How Anticommunism and the Cold War Made America Liberal

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer A. Delton is Professor of History at Skidmore College. She is the author of Making Minnesota Liberal: Civil Rights and the Transformation of the Democratic Party (2002) and Racial Integration in Corporate America, 1940–1990 (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Klappentext This book argues that far from subverting the New Deal state, anticommunism and the Cold War enabled, fulfilled, and even surpassed the New Deal's reform agenda. Zusammenfassung Jennifer A. Delton argues that! far from subverting the New Deal state! anticommunism and the Cold War enabled! fulfilled! and even surpassed the New Deal's reform agenda. Anticommunism solidified liberal political power and the Cold War justified liberal goals such as job creation! corporate regulation! economic redevelopment! and civil rights. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the liberal fifties; 1. Anticommunist liberals; 2. Moderate Republicans; 3. Corporate liberals; 4. Conservatives; 5. Civil rights; 6. Eisenhower's liberal legacy.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Delton, Jennifer A. Delton, Jennifer A. (Skidmore College Delton
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.2013
• EAN: 9781107620575
• ISBN: 978-1-107-62057-5
• No. of pages: 203
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, Political Ideologies, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Political science & theory, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Human rights, civil rights, Centrist democratic ideologies