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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : race and American liberalism -- Anti-caste liberalism -- Darwinian liberalism -- Race and the emancipation of labor -- Inequality and white supremacy -- Postwar liberalism -- Race, class, and the civil rights movement -- The broken promise of liberal revolution -- The conservative movement -- Conclusion : the impasse of progressive liberalism.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : race and American liberalism -- Anti-caste liberalism -- Darwinian liberalism -- Race and the emancipation of labor -- Inequality and white supremacy -- Postwar liberalism -- Race, class, and the civil rights movement -- The broken promise of liberal revolution -- The conservative movement -- Conclusion : the impasse of progressive liberalism.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The selling of war -- War bonds and war aims -- The politics of propaganda -- The GI's: American boys -- Cossacks and comrades -- The war in literature -- The wartime consumer -- War lords and vassals -- Little Italy -- "A Jap's a Jap" -- Jews in Great Britain -- American Jews -- Black America: the rising wind -- Jim Crow -- The persistence of prejudice -- Race riot -- Protest and prognosis -- Congress and the politics of comfort -- Resurgent republicans -- The New Deal at bay -- Two bills or rights -- Referendum on Roosevelt -- Mise en Scène -- Willkie: republican heretic -- Wallace: democratic pariah -- Limits of American Internationalism -- limits of American liberalism.…”

Table of Contents: “…NAFTA and the new world border -- Zorro, cows, Indians, and dons : re-creating Californio rancho society -- Ramona, I love you -- Woodrow Wilson's guns : American liberalism and the dilemma of non-progressive peoples -- Death and birth : the missions of California -- How the new world border changes who we are and where we are -- In the footsteps of Padre Serra.…”

Table of Contents: “…Gathering of the forces -- Black ordeal, Black freedom -- The New Frontier of American liberalism -- Why did the United States fight in Vietnam? …”

Table of Contents: “…August 1945 -- Veterans, ethnics, blacks, women -- Unions, liberals, and the state: stalemate -- Booms -- Grand expectations about the world -- Hardening of the Cold War, 1945-1948 -- Domestic politics: Truman's first term -- Red scares abroad and at home -- Korea -- Ike -- World affairs, 1953-1956 -- The biggest boom yet -- Mass consumer culture -- Race -- A center holds, more or less, 1957-1960 -- The polarized sixties: an overview -- The new frontier at home -- JFK and the world -- Lyndon Johnson and American liberalism -- A great society and the rise of rights-consciousness -- Escalation in Vietnam -- Rights, polarization, and backlash, 1966-1967 -- The most turbulent year: 1968 -- Rancor and Richard Nixon -- Nixon, Vietnam, and the world, 1969-1974 -- End of an era? …”

Table of Contents: “…Rafael -- Black and blue on San Juan Hill / Amy Kaplan -- Teddy bear patriarchy : taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936 / Donna Haraway -- Américo Paredes and decolonization / José David Saldívar -- Pious sites : Chamorro culture between Spanish Catholicism and American liberal individualism / Vicente M. Diaz -- Plotting the border : John Reed, Pancho Villa, and Insurgent Mexico / Christopher P. …”

Table of Contents: “…Garrison -- The Week [military spending] ; [the tango] -- American liberalism [letter to the editor] / Arthur Garfield Hays -- The making of a Red / Robert C. …”

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