The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered, livre ebook

When first published in 1976, Godfrey Hodgson’s America in Our Time won immediate recognition as a major interpretive study of the postwar era. In The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered, leading scholars—including Hodgson himself—confront his long-standing theory that a “liberal consensus” shaped the United States after World War II. These essays offer new insights into the era and diverging opinions on one of the most influential interpretations of mid-twentieth-century U.S. history.
Content Introduction: Reconsidering the Liberal Consensus 1 Robert Mason and Iwan Morgan 1. Revisiting the Liberal Consensus 12 Godfrey Hodgson 2. Historians and the Postwar Liberal Consensus 29 Michael Heale 3. The Reach and Limits of the Liberal Consensus 52 Gary Gerstle 4. The 1930s Roots of the Postwar “Consensus” 67 Wendy L. Wall 5. The Keynesian Consensus and Its Limits 86 Iwan Morgan 6. Social Welfare in the United States, 1945–1960 108 David Stebenne 7. Red-Hunting and Internal Security: Conflict in the Age of Consensus 127 Alex Goodall 8. Containment: A Consensual or Contested Foreign Policy? 148 Andrew Preston 9. Sunbelt Patriarchs: Lyndon B. Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the New Deal Dissensus 167 Elizabeth Tandy Shermer 10. “Down the Middle of the Road”: Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican Party, and the Politics of Consensus and Conflict, 1949–1961 186 Robert Mason 11. “We Have Run Out of Poor People”: The Democratic Party’s Crisis of Identity in the 1950s 208 Jonathan Bell 12. Billy Graham’s Neo-evangelical Triumph and the Limits of the Liberal Consensus 227 Uta A. Balbier 13. Gender in an Era of Liberal Consensus 245 Helen Laville 14. Memories of the Movement: Civil Rights, the Liberal Consensus, and the March on Washington Twenty Years Later 262 George Lewis Contributors 283 Index 287