The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement
by
Wendy L. Wall
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2008
In the wake of World War II, Americans developed an unusually deep and all-encompassing national unity, as postwar affluence and the Cold War combined to naturally produce a remarkable level of agreement about the nation's core values. Or so the story has long been told. Inventing the "American...