Building a democratic political order : reshaping American liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s /
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| Author / Creator: | Plotke, David. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996. |
| Description: | xi, 388 p. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2366850 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: the Democratic order as a political project
- 1. When does politics changen++
- 2. Creating political orders: the logic of the Democratic experience
- 3. Democratic opportunities in the crises of the 1930s
- 4. Passing the Wagner Act and building a new Democratic state
- 5. Party and movements in the Democratic upsurge, 1935-7
- 6. Progressive liberalism as pragmatic common sense
- 7. Surprising years: electing Truman and sustaining the Democratic order, 1947-9
- 8. Passing Taft-Hartley: what the losers won (and what the winners lost)
- 9. New political frontsn++ Growth and civil rights in the late 1940s
- 10. Democratic anti-Communism and the Cold War
- 11. From Truman to Kennedy: the reach and limits of Democratic power
- 12. Was the Democratic order democraticn++
- Index