Review of The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left (Landon Storrs, 2012) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Review of The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left (Landon Storrs, 2012) write by Fred Block. This book was released on 2014. Review of The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left (Landon Storrs, 2012) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left
The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left write by Landon R.Y. Storrs. This book was released on 2012-10-28. The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How Red Scare politics undermined the reform potential of the New Deal In the name of protecting Americans from Soviet espionage, the post-1945 Red Scare curtailed the reform agenda of the New Deal. The crisis of the Great Depression had brought into government a group of policy experts who argued that saving democracy required attacking economic and social inequalities. The influence of these men and women within the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, and their alliances with progressive social movements, elicited a powerful reaction from conservatives, who accused them of being subversives. Landon Storrs draws on newly declassified records of the federal employee loyalty program—created in response to claims that Communists were infiltrating the U.S. government—to reveal how disloyalty charges were used to silence these New Dealers and discredit their policies. Because loyalty investigators rarely distinguished between Communists and other leftists, many noncommunist leftists were forced to leave government or deny their political views. Storrs finds that loyalty defendants were more numerous at higher ranks of the civil service than previously thought, and that many were women, or men with accomplished leftist wives. Uncovering a forceful left-feminist presence in the New Deal, she also shows how opponents on the Right exploited popular hostility to powerful women and their supposedly effeminate spouses. The loyalty program not only destroyed many promising careers, it prohibited discussion of social democratic policy ideas in government circles, narrowing the scope of political discourse to this day. Through a gripping narrative based on remarkable new sources, Storrs demonstrates how the Second Red Scare repressed political debate and constrained U.S. policymaking in fields such as public assistance, national health insurance, labor and consumer protection, civil rights, and international aid.
Little 'Red Scares'
Little 'Red Scares' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Little 'Red Scares' write by Robert Justin Goldstein. This book was released on 2016-05-13. Little 'Red Scares' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anti-communism has long been a potent force in American politics, capable of gripping both government and popular attention. Nowhere is this more evident that the two great 'red scares' of 1919-20 and 1946-54; the latter generally - if somewhat inaccurately - termed McCarthyism. The interlude between these two major scares has tended to garner less attention, but as this volume makes clear, the lingering effects of 1919-20 and the gathering storm-clouds of 'McCarthyism' were clearly visible throughout the 20s and 30s, even if in a more low-key way. Indeed, the period between the two great red scares was marked by frequent instances of political repression, often justified on anti-communist grounds, at local, state and federal levels. Yet these events have been curiously neglected in the history of American political repression and anti-communism, perhaps because much of the material deals with events scattered in time and space which never reached the intensity of the two great scares. By focusing on this twenty-five year 'interim' period, the essays in this collection bridge the gap between the two high-profile 'red scares' thus offering a much more contextualised and fluid narrative for American anti-communism. In so doing the rationale and motivations for the 'red scares' can be seen as part of an evolving political landscape, rather than as isolated bouts of hysteria exploding onto - and then vanishing from - the political scene. Instead, a much more nuanced appreciation of the conflicting interests and fears of government, politicians, organised labour, free-speech advocates, employers, and the press is offered, which will be of interest to anyone wishing to better understand the political history of modern America.
The Blessings of Liberty
The Blessings of Liberty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Blessings of Liberty write by Michael Les Benedict. This book was released on 2016-09-30. The Blessings of Liberty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This concise, accessible text provides students with a history of American constitutional development in the context of political, economic, and social change. Constitutional historian Michael Benedict stresses the role that the American people have played over time in defining the powers of government and the rights of individuals and minorities. He covers important trends and events in U.S. constitutional history, encompassing key Supreme Court and lower-court cases. The volume begins by discussing the English and colonial origins of American constitutionalism. Following an analysis of the American Revolution's meaning to constitutional history, the text traces the Constitution's evolution from the Early Republic to the present day. This third edition is updated to include the election of 2000, the Tea Party and the rise of popular constitutionalism, and the rise of judicial supremacy as seen in cases such as Citizens United, the Affordable Care Act, and gay marriage.
The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered
The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered write by Robert Mason. This book was released on 2019-10-14. The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When first published in 1976, Godfrey Hodgson’s America in Our Time won immediate recognition as a major interpretive study of the postwar era. In The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered, leading scholars—including Hodgson himself—confront his long-standing theory that a “liberal consensus” shaped the United States after World War II. These essays offer new insights into the era and diverging opinions on one of the most influential interpretations of mid-twentieth-century U.S. history.
