ABSTRACT

Civil Rights and the Crisis of Liberalism: The Democratic Party, 1945-1976 is about ideology and politics. It focuses on the civil rights issue in Democratic party politics from 1945 to 1976 but glances at a longer history to describe American liberalism.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

part One|57 pages

Liberalism and American History

chapter One|5 pages

The Contradictions of Liberalism

chapter Two|17 pages

The Limits of Liberalism

chapter Three|15 pages

The Limits of Reform

chapter Four|15 pages

The New Deal

part Two|126 pages

Civil Rights and the Liberal Triumph

chapter Five|27 pages

The Fair Deal

chapter Six|23 pages

The Truce of 1952

chapter Seven|20 pages

The Resumption of Conflict

chapter Eight|19 pages

The 1956 Campaign

chapter Nine|32 pages

The Liberal Triumph

part Three|79 pages

Civil Rights and the Liberal Failure

chapter Ten|38 pages

Beyond Liberalism

chapter Eleven|26 pages

Liberalism Reassessed

chapter Twelve|13 pages

The Postliberal World