Building a democratic political order: reshaping American liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s

Abstract

Preface Introduction: the Democratic order as a political project 1. When does politics change? 2. Creating political orders: the logic of the Democratic experience 3. Democratic opportunities in the crises of the 1930s 4. Passing the Wagner Act and building a new Democratic state 5. Party and movements in the Democratic upsurge, 1935-7 6. Progressive liberalism as pragmatic common sense 7. Surprising years: electing Truman and sustaining the Democratic order, 1947-9 8. Passing Taft-Hartley: what the losers won (and what the winners lost) 9. New political fronts? Growth and civil rights in the late 1940s 10. Democratic anti-Communism and the Cold War 11. From Truman to Kennedy: the reach and limits of Democratic power 12. Was the Democratic order democratic? Index.

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