Bibliograph

Inventing the "American way", the politics of consensus from the New Deal to the civil rights movement, Wendy L. Wall

Type

Label

Inventing the "American way", the politics of consensus from the New Deal to the civil rights movement, Wendy L. Wall

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Inventing the "American way"

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

191038707

Responsibility statement

Wendy L. Wall

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Sub title

the politics of consensus from the New Deal to the civil rights movement

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

Target audience

specialized

Classification