Inventing the "American way"
Subtitle: the politics of consensus from the New Deal to the civil rights movement
By: Wendy L. Wall
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780195329100
Subjects: Politics and government; Political culture; Officials and employees; Elite (Social sciences); Nationalism; Businessmen; Intellectuals; Social conditions; Political activists; Political activity; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical reference (p. [295]-359) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. Enemies at home and abroad (1935-1941); title: "Are we a nation?"; title: Industrial democracy versus free enterprise; title: In search of common ground; title: Pt. II. The politics of unity during World War II (1942-1945); title: The spectre of "divide and conquer"; title: "The house I live in"; title: Pt. III. Shaping a Cold War consensus (1946-1955); title: United America; title: The Freedom Train; title: Crusading for freedom at home and abroad; title: Conclusion.