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The Endurance of New Deal Liberalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

David Plotke
David Plotke
Affiliation:
New School for Social Research
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Extract

The increase in writing by political historians and political scientists about the United States in the 1940s registers concerns about origins – after some major endings, notably of Democratic political predominance and the Cold War. That decade also saw the beginning of serious national efforts at reform in racial politics.

Type
Forum: Alan Brinkley's The End of Reform
Information
Studies in American Political Development , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , Fall 1996 , pp. 415 - 420
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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References

1. Similar concerns animate Katznelson's studies of the 1940s. See Katznelson, Ira and Pietrkowski, Bruce, “Rebuilding the American State: Evidence from the 1940s,” Studies in American Political Development 5 (Fall 1991): 301–39Google Scholar ; Katznelson, Ira, Geiger, Kim, and Kryder, Daniel, “Limiting Liberalism: The Southern Veto in Congress, 1933–1950, ”Political Science Quarterly Summer (1993): 283–306Google Scholar.

2. I make this argument in Plotke, David, Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3. Brinkley, End of Reform, 113.