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The Great Melding : War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the Southern Model for America's New Conservatism /

One in which the New Deal consensus shattered and the Democratic and Republican parties fought off a third-party revolt only to find themselves irrevocably altered by their success. The Great Melding will fascinate historians, political scientists, political strategists, and readers of political non...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Feldman, Glenn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "We must not holler till we are clean out of the woods"
  • Social Darwinism, free-market fundamentalism, and "The status quo society"
  • "We must wake up the Roosevelt worshippers to what the New Deal is doing to torpedo White supremacy"
  • Gathering clouds
  • Grits and circuses
  • The laws of God and Alabama
  • Feeding the monster: volume I
  • The inexorableness of cultural continuities
  • An oasis of liberalism?
  • Brewing rebellion
  • They crucified us
  • The conservative revolt against civil rights and the national Democratic Party
  • The Dixiecrat revolt in perspective: meanings and "the southern road" to America's new conservatism
  • "Let us not wince any more when we hear the word Republican"
  • Conclusion.