The liberal state on trial : the Cold War and American politics in the Truman years / Jonathan Bell.

What was left, in both senses of the word, of liberalism after the death of Franklin Roosevelt? This question has aroused considerable historical debate because it raises the question of why the United States, during the Truman years, developed a much less state-centered orthodoxy than other compara...

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Egile nagusia: Bell, Jonathan, 1976-
Formatua: eBook
Hizkuntza:English
Argitaratua: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2004.
Saila:Columbia studies in contemporary American history.
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Aurkibidea:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION : IDEOLOGIES OF THE STATE IN EARLY COLD WAR AMERICA
  • 1. The Dynamics of Postwar Politics Before the Cold War
  • 2. The 80th Congress and Conceptions of the State
  • 3. Ideological Interpretations of Foreign Policy, 1947-1948
  • 4. Varieties of Liberalism in the 1948 Campaigns
  • 5. Transnational Perspectives and Images of the State, 1949-1950
  • 6. The American State on Trial: THE 1950 MIDTERM ELECTIONS
  • 7. All Internationalists Now: ESTABLISHING A CONSENSUS ON THE STATE IN THE COLD WAR, 1951-1952
  • CONCLUSION THE COLD WA R, THE STATE, AND POST NEW DEAL AMERICA
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • Backmatter.