Liberal Consensus Reconsidered

Robert Mason, professor of history at the University of Edinburgh, is the author of The Republican Party and American Politics from Hoover to Reagan.Iwan Morgan, professor of United States studies at University College London, is the author of Reagan: American Icon and coeditor of From Sit-Ins to SNCC: The Student Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

• Introduction: Reconsidering the Liberal ConsensusRobert Mason and Iwan Morgan1. Revisiting the Liberal Consensus – Godfrey Hodgson2. Historians and the Postwar Liberal Consensus – Michael Heale3. The Reach and Limits of the Liberal Consensus – Gary Gerstle4. The 1930s Roots of the Postwar "Consensus" – Wendy L. Wall5. The Keynesian Consensus and Its Limits – Iwan Morgan6. Social Welfare in the United States, 1945–1960 – David Stebenne7. Red-Hunting and Internal Security: Conflict in the Age of Consensus – Alex Goodall8. Containment: A Consensual or Contested Foreign Policy? – Andrew Preston9. Sunbelt Patriarchs: Lyndon B. Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the New Deal Dissensus – Elizabeth Tandy Shermer10. "Down the Middle of the Road": Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican Party, and the Politics of Consensus and Conflict, 1949–1961 – Robert Mason11. "We Have Run Out of Poor People": The Democratic Party's Crisis of Identity in the 1950s – Jonathan Bell12. Billy Graham's Neo-evangelical Triumph and the Limits of the Liberal Consensus – Uta A. Balbier13. Gender in an Era of Liberal Consensus – Helen Laville14. Memories of the Movement: Civil Rights, the Liberal Consensus, and the March on Washington Twenty Years Later – George LewisContributorsIndex