LEADER 04645nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910463741403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89658-3 010 $a0-8122-0624-X 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206241 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046104 035 $a(OCoLC)824522202 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642715 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000582017 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11966013 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000582017 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10541080 035 $a(PQKB)11047988 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441963 035 $a(OCoLC)794700773 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17507 035 $a(DE-B1597)449517 035 $a(OCoLC)979623093 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206241 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441963 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642715 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420908 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046104 100 $a20110801d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCalifornia crucible$b[electronic resource] $ethe forging of modern American liberalism /$fJonathan Bell 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (352 p.) 225 0 $aPolitics and Culture in Modern America 225 0$aPolitics and culture in modern America 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4387-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [281]-331) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. Placing California in Post-World War II American Politics --$tChapter 1. Politics and Party in California at Mid-Century --$tChapter 2. Building the Democratic Party in the 1940's --$tChapter 3. The Stevenson Effect --$tChapter 4. A Democratic Order --$tChapter 5. Turning Point: California Politics in the 1950's --$tChapter 6. The Liberal Moment --$tChapter 7. Democratic Politics and the Brown Administration --$tChapter 8. Welfare Reform and the Idea of the Family --$tChapter 9. Culture Wars, Politics, and Power --$tChapter 10. The Legacy of the Democratic Party Renaissance --$tEpilogue: Liberal Politics in California in an "Era of Limits" --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn the three decades following World War II, the Golden State was not only the fastest-growing state in the Union but also the site of significant political change. From the late 1940's through the mid-1970's, a generation of liberal activists transformed the political landscape of California, ending Republican dominance of state politics and eventually setting the tone for the Democratic Party nationwide. In California Crucible, Jonathan Bell chronicles this dramatic story of postwar liberalism-from early grassroots organizing and the election of Pat Brown as governor in 1958 to the civil rights campaigns of the 1960's and the campaigns against the New Right in the 1970's. As Bell argues, the emergent "California liberalism" was a distinctly post-New Deal phenomenon that drew on the ambitious ideals of the New Deal but adapted them to a diverse population. The result was a broad coalition that sought to extend social democracy to marginalized groups-such as gay rights and civil rights organizations-that had not been well served by the Democratic Party in earlier decades. In building this coalition, liberal activists forged an ideology capable of bringing Latino farm workers, African American civil rights activists, and wealthy suburban homemakers into a shared political project. By exploring California Democrats' largely successful attempts to link economic rights to civil rights and serve the needs of diverse groups, Bell challenges common assumptions about the rise of the New Right and the decline of American liberalism in the postwar era. As Bell shows, by the end of the 1970's California had become the spiritual home of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party as much as that of the Reagan Revolution. 410 0$aPolitics and culture in modern America. 606 $aLiberalism$zCalifornia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLiberalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aCalifornia$xPolitics and government$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLiberalism$xHistory 615 0$aLiberalism$xHistory 676 $a320.51/309794 700 $aBell$b Jonathan$f1976-$0856289 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463741403321 996 $aCalifornia crucible$92462097 997 $aUNINA