11. Race and the Liberal Consensus: from Truman to Kennedy
POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
FULL BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. How succesful was the Republican party in challenging the legacy of the New Deal between 1945 and 1960?
2. What kept the Democratic electoral coalition largely in tact between 1945 and 1960?
3. How and why did the meaning of the term "liberalism" alter during the Truman and Eisenhower presidencies?
4. What factors influenced the response of the federal government to the issue of civil rights for African Americans under Truman and Eisenhower?

Required Reading
Patterson, Grand Expectations, chapters 6 and 9
Godrey Hodgson, "The Ideology of the Liberal Consensus"

Further Reading
William Chafe, "Introduction" to The Achievment of American Liberalism: the New Deal and its legacies 2003)
Jonathan Bell, The Liberal State on Trial
Kari Frederickson, The Dixiecrat Revolt and the end of the Solid SOuth, 1932-1968 (2001) -- esp cc 4-5

Primary Sources
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., "Not Right, Not Left, But a Vital Center" [article in the New York Times, 1948]
Henry Wallace Campaign songs, 1948 Election