Rethinking the 1950s : How Anticommunism and the Cold War Made America Liberal

Name: Rethinking the 1950s
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107620575
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ISBN: 9781107620575

by Jennifer A. Delton

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1107620570

ISBN-13 9781107620575

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 7th, 2013

Print length 203 Pages

Weight 342 grams

Dimensions 15.30 x 22.80 x 1.40 cms

Product Classification: History of the Americas Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 Centrist democratic ideologies and movements Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies Human rights Human rights, civil rights History History of the Americas

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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 Cold War justified liberal goals such as job creation, corporate regulation, economic redevelopment, and civil rights.

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 Cold War justified liberal goals such as jobs creation, corporate regulation, economic redevelopment, and civil rights. She shows how despite President Eisenhower''s professed conservativism, he maintained the highest tax rates in US history, expanded New Deal programs, and supported major civil rights reforms.

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