"America in Our Time" is a history of the turbulent years
between the end of World War II and the fall of Richard Nixon.
Focusing on the 1960s, the book debunks some of the myths about
that much misremembered decade. Godfrey Hodgson pioneers the idea
that in the 1950s a "liberal consensus" governed American politics,
by which conservatives accepted the liberal domestic policy of the
welfare state, while all but a few liberals shared the conservative
foreign policy of Cold War "containment."
The book shows in rich detail how that consensus was shattered
by the converging blows of racial upheaval, the Vietnam War, and a
pervasive crisis of authority in American society, all the way from
the family to the White House, opening the way for a new
conservatism. Hodgson has added an afterword that looks back at the
events covered in the book from the perspective of almost thirty
years since it was published.
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