Beyond the New Deal Order - U.s. Politics From the Great Depression to the Great Recession

Gary Gerstle is the Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge. He is author of Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present and American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. He is coeditor, with Steve Fraser, of The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980. Nelson Lichtenstein is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is editor of American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century; coeditor, with Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, of The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination; and coeditor, with Richard Flacks, of The Port Huron Statement: Sources and Legacies of the New Left's Founding Manifesto; all of which are available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Alice O'Connor is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History and Social Science for What?: Philanthropy and the Social Question in a World Turned Rightside Up.

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Edited by Gary Gerstle, Nelson Lichtenstein, and Alice O'Connor

Summary

In Beyond the New Deal Order, contributors bring fresh perspectives to the historic meaning and significance of the New Deal coalition from the standpoint of the early twenty-first century. The volume asks if a new order will emerge from the economic, ideological, institutional, and electoral currents shaping politics today.

Product details

• Authors: Gary (EDT)/ Lichtenstein Gerstle, Gary Lichtenstein Gerstle
• Assisted by: Gary Gerstle (Editor), Nelson Lichtenstein (Editor), Alice O'Connor (Editor)
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780812251739
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5173-9
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America; Politics and Culture in Modern
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management