In this Book
- The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945–1968
- Book
- 1995
- Published by: Cornell University Press
A Choice Magazine "Outstanding Academic Book for 1996"
"Kevin Boyle has done a masterful job of identifying the unique contribution of the UAW, not only to American Liberalism, but also to the nation and to all people. As contemporary labor and society at large search for new directions, this book should be required reading."—Victor G. Reuther
"One of the many virtues of Kevin Boyle's brilliant and important history, The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, is that it provides a clear picture of the road not taken."—The American Prospect
"Intelligent, well written, and exhaustively researched,... Boyle's work... is part of an important and increasingly favorable reevaluation of the character of late New Deal social democracy."—Journal of American History
"[Boyle's] book presents, with a remarkably assured tone and a mastery of materials, a persuasive narrative of the shortcomings of postwar liberalism from the labor perspective that was so important then and is so often ignored today."—American Political Science Review
"Kevin Boyle has done a masterful job of identifying the unique contribution of the UAW, not only to American Liberalism, but also to the nation and to all people. As contemporary labor and society at large search for new directions, this book should be required reading."—Victor G. Reuther
Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- pp. xiii-xvi
- 1. Building the Vanguard
- pp. 10-34
- 2. Craven Politics
- pp. 35-60
- 3. The Vital Center Shifts
- pp. 61-82
- 4. The Pull of Consensus
- pp. 83-106
- 5. The Crucible of Race
- pp. 107-131
- 6. Something Less than Perfect
- pp. 132-160
- 7. The Coalition of Conscience
- pp. 161-184
- 8. Building the Great Society
- pp. 185-205
- 9. The Widening Gyre
- pp. 206-233
- 10. Things Fall Apart
- pp. 234-256
- Epilogue: The Limits of Liberalism
- pp. 257-262
- Additional Abbreviations Used in Notes
- pp. 263-264