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Rethinking the 1950s: How Anticommunism and the Cold War Made America Liberal
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- Jennifer A Delton
- Cambridge University Press
- Paperback
- 9781107620575
- 8.9 X 6 X 0.8 inches
- 0.8 pounds
- History > United States - 20th Century
- English
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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 U.S. history, expanded New Deal programs, and supported major civil rights reforms.
Rethinking the 1950s: How Anticommunism and the Cold War Made America Liberal
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Jennifer Delton teaches courses in U.S. history since the Civil War, which focus on liberalism, conservatism, race, class, civil rights, and business/economics in twentieth century. She received a BA in American Studies from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and holds a PhD in History from Princeton University.
She is the author of four books, including, most recently, The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism (Princeton UP, 2020).
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