Contents

• Introduction / William H. Chafe
• 1. The New Deal Experiments / Alan Brinkley
• 2. High Tide: Roosevelt, Truman, and the Democratic Party, 1932-1952 / Alonzo L. Hamby
• 3. The Roosevelt Court / Melvin I. Urofsky
• 4. Voting Against the Hammer and Sickle: Communism as an Issue in American Politics / Richard M. Fried
• 5. The Ethical Responsibilities of the Scientist: The Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer / Richard Polenberg
• 6. Race in America: The Ultimate Test of Liberalism / William H. Chafe
• 7. African Americans, American Jews, and the Holocaust / Harvard Sitkoff
• 8. Race, Rock and Roll, and the Rigged Society: The Payola Scandal and the Political Culture of the 1950s / Steven F. Lawson
• 9. "A Revolution But Half Accomplished": The Twentieth Century’s Engagement with Child-Raising, Women’s Work, and Feminism / Cynthia Harrison
• 10. Race, Class, and Gender in Southern History: Forces that Unite, Forces that Divide / William H. Chafe
• 11. Liberalism after the Sixties: A Reconnaissance / Otis L. Graham, Jr