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The rise and fall of the New Deal order, 1930-1980 /

The 10 essays in this book probe the underlying economic, social, and cultural dynamics of the Roosevelt revolution, analyze the durability of the New Deal coalition through the mid-1960s, and uncover the racial, class, and cultural fissures that led to its disintegration. The contributors answer su...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Fraser, Steve, 1945-, Gerstle, Gary, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1989]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. The New Deal political order: emergence and crystallization, 1929-1960: Industrial conflict and the coming of the New Deal: the triumph of multinational liberalism in America / Thomas Ferguson
  • Why the Great Depression was great: a new understanding of the interwar economic crisis in the United States / Michael A. Bernstein
  • The "labor question" / Steve Fraser
  • The New Deal and the idea of the state / Alan Brinkley
  • From corporatism to collective bargaining: organized labor and the eclipse of social democracy in the postwar era / Nelson Lichtenstein
  • Cold War -warm hearth: politics and the family in postwar America / Elaine Tyler May
  • pt. 2. The New Deal political order: decline and fall, 1960-1980: Was the Great Society a lost opportunity? / Ira Katznelson
  • The failure and success of the new radicalism / Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin
  • The rise of the "silent majority" / Jonathan Rieder
  • The changing shape of power: a realignment in public policy / Thomas Byrne Edsall.