Title:
California crucible the forging of modern American liberalism
Author:
Bell, Jonathan, 1976-
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9780812206241
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
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1 online resource (352 p.)
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Politics and culture in modern America
Politics and culture in modern America.
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Summary
Summary
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.
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 |