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Book SynopsisAlan Brinkley, Melvin Urofsky, Harvard Sitkoff, and other leading scholars explore the liberal tradition in American politics, culture, and social relations.
Trade ReviewThese pieces range from good to excellent. Library Journal Chafe's own essays... are excellent models for how historians and other scholars might effectively come to grips with elements of the New Deal, liberalism, and thier legacies. New Deal This book will be useful for those seeking an understanding of US politics over the last decades of the 20th century. -- J.P. Sanson Choice This book ranks among the most significant efforts to understand the long-term impact of the New Deal on American Politics and society. The eleven essays herein will be welcomed for their insightful commentaries on wide-ranging aspects of the 1930s liberal legacy that were to shape the American political experience for the remainder of the twentieth century... Both in its contribution to understanding twentieth-century political history and contemporary America, this study will become established as a standard work on its subject. -- Iwan Morgan Journal of American Studies The essays collected in this tribute to William E. Leuchtenburg survey the arc of American liberalism... effective and accomplished pieces. -- Robert C. Lieberman Journal of American History
Table of ContentsContributors Introduction, by William H. Chafe 1. The New Deal Experiments, by Alan Brinkley 2. High Tide: Roosevelt, Truman, and the Democratic Party, 1932-1952, by Alonzo L. Hamby 3. The Roosevelt Court, by Melvin I. Urofsky 4. Voting Against the Hammer and Sickle: Communism as an Issue in American Politics, by Richard M. Fried 5. The Ethical Responsibilities of the Scientist: The Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Richard Polenberg 6. Race in America: The Ultimate Test of Liberalism, by William H. Chafe 7. African Americans, American Jews, and the Holocaust, by Harvard Sitkoff 8. Race, Rock and Roll, and the Rigged Society: The Payola Scandal and the Political Culture of the 1950s, by Steven F. Lawson 9. "A Revolution But Half Accomplished": The Twentieth Century's Engagement with Child-Raising, Women's Work, and Feminism, by Cynthia Harrison 10. Race, Class, and Gender in Southern History: Forces That Unite, Forces That Divide,, by William H. Chafe 11. Liberalism After the Sixties: A Reconnaissance, by Otis L. Graham Jr Index
