Beyond Pure Reason

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Alan Brinkley, Melvin Urofsky, Harvard Sitkoff, and other leading scholars explore the liberal tradition in American politics, culture, and social relations. Introduction / William H. Chafe -- The New Deal Experiments / Alan Brinkley -- High Tide: Roosevelt, Truman, and the Democratic Party, 1932-1952 / Alonzo L. Hamby -- The Roosevelt Court / Melvin I. Urofsky -- Voting Against the Hammer and Sickle: Communism as an issue in American Politics / Richard M. Fried -- The Ethical Responsibilities of the Scientist: The Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer / Richard Polenberg -- Race in America: The Ultimate Test of Liberalism / William H. Chafe -- African Americans, American Jews, and the Holocaust / Harvard Sitkoff -- Race, Rock and Roll, and the Rigged Society: The Payola Scandal and the Political Culture of the 1950S / Steven F. Lawson -- "A Revolution but Half Accomplished": The Twentieth Century's Engagement with Child-Raising, Women's Work, and Feminism / Cynthia Harrison -- Race, Class, and Gender in Southern History: Forces that Unite, Forces that Divide / William H. Chafe -- Liberalism After the Sixties: A Reconnaissance / Otis L. Graham Jr.