The gifted generation : when government was good /
In The Gifted Generation, a fresh interpretation of post-World War II America, historian David Goldfield examines the generation immediately after the war. He argues that the federal government was instrumental in the great economic, social and environmental progress of the era. Following the sacrif...
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New York :
Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Good government
- Part I: Crossing the meridian. Moving ; Pioneers ; The plowboy ; To secure these rights ; South by north ; The scarlet letter ; The endless frontier ; "To hell with Jews, Jesuits, and steamships!"
- Part II: Settlement. The Swedish Jew ; The wheels of justice ; Yesterday ; Tomorrow ; Steps ; Confidence
- Part III: Gifts. The cowboy ; Interlude ; Being Lincoln ; Patrimony ; A woman's world ; The great American breakthrough ; Blood
- Part IV: The great regression. Party lines ; The populist moment ; Stall ; The color line ; The old country ; The great regression.