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The Endurance of New Deal Liberalism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 December 2008
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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.
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- Forum: Alan Brinkley's The End of Reform
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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.
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