Format:
Online-Ressource (343 p)
ISBN:
1283896583
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9781283896580
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9780812206241
Series Statement:
Politics and culture in modern America
Content:
Historian Jonathan Bell chronicles the dramatic story of postwar liberalism in California--moving from early grassroots organizing and the election of Pat Brown as governor in 1958 to the civil rights campaigns of the 1960s and the campaigns against the new right in the 1970s.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Placing California in Post-World War II American Politics -- Chapter 1. Politics and Party in California at Mid-Century -- Chapter 2. Building the Democratic Party in the 1940s -- Chapter 3. The Stevenson Effect -- Chapter 4. A Democratic Order -- Chapter 5. Turning Point: California Politics in the 1950s -- Chapter 6. The Liberal Moment -- Chapter 7. Democratic Politics and the Brown Administration -- Chapter 8. Welfare Reform and the Idea of the Family -- Chapter 9. Culture Wars, Politics, and Power -- Chapter 10. The Legacy of the Democratic Party Renaissance -- Epilogue: Liberal Politics in California in an "Era of Limits" -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-331) and index
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""Cover ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Dedication Page ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Introduction: Placing California in Post-World War II American Politics ""; ""Chapter 1. Politics and Party in California at Mid-Century ""; ""Chapter 2. Building the Democratic Party in the 1940s ""
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""Chapter 3. The Stevenson Effect """"Chapter 4. A Democratic Order ""; ""Chapter 5. Turning Point: California Politics in the 1950s ""; ""Chapter 6. The Liberal Moment ""; ""Chapter 7. Democratic Politics and the Brown Administration ""; ""Chapter 8. Welfare Reform and the Idea of the Family ""
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""Chapter 9. Culture Wars, Politics, and Power """"Chapter 10. The Legacy of the Democratic Party Renaissance ""; ""Epilogue: Liberal Politics in California in an "Era of Limits" ""; ""Notes ""; ""Index ""; ""Acknowledgments ""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1283896354
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812243871
Additional Edition:
Print version California Crucible : The Forging of Modern American Liberalism
Language:
English
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