The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered: American Politics and Society in the Postwar

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Leading scholars confront the longstanding theory that a liberal consensus shaped the United States after World War II. The essays draw on fresh research to examine how the consensus related to key policy areas, how it was viewed by different factions and groups, what its limitations were, and why it fell apart in the late 1960s.

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Here, leading scholars-including Hodgson himself-confront the longstanding theory that a liberal consensus shaped the United States after World War II. The essays draw on fresh research to examine how the consensus related to key policy areas, how it was viewed by different factions and groups, what its limitations were, and why it fell apart in the late 1960s.

Author Biography

Robert Mason, professor of history at the University of Edinburgh, is the author of The Republican Party and American Politics from Hoover to Reagan.Iwan Morgan, professor of United States studies at University College London, is the author of Reagan: American Icon and coeditor of From Sit-Ins to SNCC: The Student Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Reconsidering the Liberal ConsensusRobert Mason and Iwan Morgan1. Revisiting the Liberal Consensus – Godfrey Hodgson2. Historians and the Postwar Liberal Consensus – Michael Heale3. The Reach and Limits of the Liberal Consensus – Gary Gerstle4. The 1930s Roots of the Postwar "Consensus" – Wendy L. Wall5. The Keynesian Consensus and Its Limits – Iwan Morgan6. Social Welfare in the United States, 1945–1960 – David Stebenne7. Red-Hunting and Internal Security: Conflict in the Age of Consensus – Alex Goodall8. Containment: A Consensual or Contested Foreign Policy? – Andrew Preston9. Sunbelt Patriarchs: Lyndon B. Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the New Deal Dissensus – Elizabeth Tandy Shermer10. "Down the Middle of the Road": Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican Party, and the Politics of Consensus and Conflict, 1949–1961 – Robert Mason11. "We Have Run Out of Poor People": The Democratic Party's Crisis of Identity in the 1950s – Jonathan Bell12. Billy Graham's Neo-evangelical Triumph and the Limits of the Liberal Consensus – Uta A. Balbier13. Gender in an Era of Liberal Consensus – Helen Laville14. Memories of the Movement: Civil Rights, the Liberal Consensus, and the March on Washington Twenty Years Later – George LewisContributorsIndex

Review

"Contributors offer a broad range of insights into Hodgson's thesis, considering it in the context of historiography, its roots in the 1930s, and its relation to Keynesian thought and policy. . . . Essential."--Choice "An excellent series of essays on the concept of the 'liberal consensus.' . . . Provocative, thoughtful, and persuasive."--Journal of American History

Review Quote

"Contributors offer a broad range of insights into Hodgson's thesis, considering it in the context of historiography, its roots in the 1930s, and its relation to Keynesian thought and policy. . . . Essential."-- Choice "An excellent series of essays on the concept of the 'liberal consensus.' . . . Provocative, thoughtful, and persuasive."-- Journal of American History

Details ISBN0813064449 Pages 306 Year 2019 ISBN-10 0813064449 ISBN-13 9780813064444 Publication Date 2019-11-30 Format Paperback Imprint University Press of Florida Subtitle American Politics and Society in the Postwar Era Place of Publication Florida Country of Publication United States Edited by Iwan Morgan DEWEY 320.510973 Short Title The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered Language English AU Release Date 2019-11-12 NZ Release Date 2019-11-12 UK Release Date 2019-11-12 Author Iwan Morgan Publisher University Press of Florida Alternative 9780813054261 Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2019-11-30 We've got this

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