Rethinking the 1950s
Jennifer A. Delton · 2013
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About the book
Historians generally portray the 1950s as a conservative era when anticommunism and the Cold War subverted domestic reform, crushed political dissent, and ended liberal dreams of social democracy. These years, historians tell us, represented a turn to the right, a negation of New Deal liberalism, an end to reform. Jennifer A. Delton argues that, far from subverting the New Deal state, anticommunism and the Cold War enabled, fulfilled, and even surpassed the New Deal's reform agenda. Anticommunism solidified liberal political power and the...
Book details
- Year
- 2013
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 198
- ISBN
- 9781107011809
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