Title:
Struggles for justice : social responsibility and the liberal state
Author:
Dawley, Alan, 1943-
ISBN:
9780674845800
9780674845817
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c1991.
Physical Description:
x, 538 p., [10] p. of plates: ill. ; 24 cm.
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Summary
Summary
In a conceptualized interpretation of the making of modern America, prizewinning historian Alan Dawley traces the inner struggles of the nation's rise to power. Probing the dynamics of social change, he explores tensions between industrial workers and corporate capitalists, Victorian moralists and New Women, native Protestants and Catholic immigrants. Starting with the Gilded Age, Struggles for Justice highlights changes in American social and political life, including Wilson's liberal crusade, Hoover's managerial liberalism and Roosevelt's New Deal. Along the way, it presents a kaleidoscope of topics: expansion, unions, World War I, race relations, Red Scare and consumerism.
Table of Contents
| Introduction |
| Part I The Problem: State and Society, 1890s-1912 |
| Chapter 1 Gilded Age Liberty |
| Chapter 2 New Workers, New Women |
| Chapter 3 The Social Question |
| Part II Confronting the Issues, 1913-1924 |
| Chapter 4 Progressive Statecraft |
| Chapter 5 The Dynamics of Total War |
| Chapter 6 Response to Revolution |
| Chapter 7 Restoration by Repression |
| Part III The Resolution, 1925-1938 |
| Chapter 8 The New Era of Corporate Capitalism |
| Chapter 9 Managing the Depression: Hoover and Roosevelt |
| Chapter 10 Rendezvous with Destiny |
| Conclusion |
| Abbreviations |
| Selected Bibliography |
| Notes |
| Index |