Inventing the "American way" : the politics of consensus from the New Deal to the civil rights movement /
"Wendy Wall looks at how and why postwar Americans of diverse backgrounds and divergent political views agreed upon a need for and put forward a unifying set of national values. She particularly focuses on three groups: businessmen, government officials and cultural elites, and a loose collatio...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2008]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Wendy Wall looks at how and why postwar Americans of diverse backgrounds and divergent political views agreed upon a need for and put forward a unifying set of national values. She particularly focuses on three groups: businessmen, government officials and cultural elites, and a loose collation of activists and intellectuals." -- Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: | First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2009. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 378 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical reference (pages 295-359) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198044031 0198044038 9781435620476 143562047X 9780199736829 0199736820 9780199870226 0199870225 |