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Zusatztext This author deserves credit for making the "dismal science" in this work readable and interesting. Highly recommended. Informationen zum Autor Robert M. Collins is Professor of History at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where he teaches recent U.S. history. He is the author of The Business Response to Keynes, 1929-1964. He lives in Columbia, Missouri. Klappentext James Carville famously reminded Bill Clinton throughout 1992 that "it's the economy, stupid." Yet, for the last forty years, historians of modern America have ignored the economy to focus on cultural, social, and political themes, from the birth of modern feminism to the fall of the BerlinWall. Now a scholar has stepped forward to place the economy back in its rightful place, at the center of his historical narrative. In More, Robert M. Collins reexamines the history of the United States from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, focusing on the federal government's determined pursuit of economic growth. After tracing the emergence of growth as a priority during FDR's presidency, Collins explores therecord of successive administrations, highlighting both their success in fostering growth and its partisan uses. Collins reveals that the obsession with growth appears not only as a matter of policy, but as an expression of Cold War ideology--both a means to pay for the arms build-up and proof ofthe superiority of the United States' market economy. But under Johnson, this enthusiasm sparked a crisis: spending on Vietnam unleashed runaway inflation, while the nation struggled with the moral consequences of its prosperity, reflected in books such as John Kenneth Galbraith's The AffluentSociety and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. More continues up to the end of the 1990s, as Collins explains the real impact of Reagan's policies and astutely assesses Clinton's "disciplined growthmanship," which combined deficit reduction and a relaxed but watchful monetary policy by the FederalReserve. Writing with eloquence and analytical clarity, Robert M. Collins offers astartlingly new framework for understanding the history of postwar America. Zusammenfassung This title explores the growth of America in terms of material prosperity. It interweaves economic history and cultural analysis onto his examination of postwar growth politics. The book contrasts the reasons for expansion and the way it has occurred in the past 50 years with the negative effects it has produced and the reactions against it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prolugue: The Ambiguity of New Deal Economics 1: The Emergence of Economic Growthmanship 2: The Ascendancy of Growth Liberalism 3: Growth Liberalism Comes a Cropper, 1968 4: Richard Nixon's Whig Growthmanship 5: The Retreat from Growth in the 1970s 6: The Reagan Revolution and the Antistatist Growthmanship 7: Slow Drilling in Hard Boards Conclusion Notes Index ...
