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From Union Halls to the Suburbs: Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Liberalism: Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond

Autor Scott Kamen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 dec 2023
For decades, Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) exerted an outsized pull on the political stage. Formed in 1947 by anticommunist liberals such as economist John Kenneth Galbraith and historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the ADA established itself as the most prominent liberal organization in the United States for more than a quarter century. Shaped by the ADA, the New Politics movement upended Democratic Party politics with its challenge to the Vietnam War, demands for redistributive economic policies, and development of a far-reaching politics of race, gender, and sexuality.
By bringing the ADA and its influential public intellectuals into the story of the New Politics movement, Scott Kamen reveals how American liberalism shifted away from the working-class concerns of the New Deal era and began to cater to the interests of a new, suburban professional class. By the 1980s, many Democratic politicians, activists, and voters had embraced a neoliberal ideology that coupled socially liberal attitudes with market-based solutions, eschewing an older progressive politics steeped in labor issues.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781625347619
ISBN-10: 1625347618
Pagini: 300
Ilustrații: 13 illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Massachusetts Press
Colecția University of Massachusetts Press
Seria Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond


Notă biografică

SCOTT KAMEN is assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico–Valencia Campus.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments 
List of Abbreviations 
Introduction 
From Union Halls to the Suburbs via the New Politics Movement 
Chapter 1 
The Origins of a Liberal Divide 
Debating the Politics of Growth and Qualitative Liberalism in the Affluent Society 
Chapter 2 
Rethinking the Cold War 
The Vital Center and the Vietnam War 
Chapter 3 
Beyond the War on Poverty 
The Civil Rights Movement, Social Democracy, and the Struggle for Racial Equality 
Chapter 4 
The Coming of the New Politics Movement 
The Vietnam War and the Promise of the New Class 
Chapter 5 
The Evolution of the New Politics 
A Broader Movement, Neoconservatives, and the Struggle for the Mantle of Liberalism 
Chapter 6 
From New Politics to Neoliberalism 
Atari Democrats and the Dual Legacies of the New Politics Movement 
Epilogue 
New Politics, New Democrats, and American Liberalism in the Twenty-First Century 
Notes 
Index 

Recenzii

“Based on thorough research, Kamen adroitly illuminates major historical contexts while telling a story about an important organization and a crucial time—the early 1940s to the present. The book has the potential to enter political discussions outside of academe.”—Kevin Mattson, author of We’re Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America