13. April 28: Postwar America and Conservatism

Readings:

Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right

Leo P. Ribuffo, “Why is There so Much Conservatism in the United States and Why Do So Few Historians Know Anything about It?,” American Historical Review, 99 (Apr. 1994), 438-44

Michael Lind, “Conservative Elites and the Counterrevolution against the New Deal,” Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy , ed. Fraser and Gerstle

Supplemental Readings:

Kevin Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (2005)

Michael Sherry, The Rise of American Air Power: the creation of Armageddon, 1987

Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass frontier: the suburbanization of the United States, 1985

Jack S. Ballard, The Shock of Peace: Military and Economic Demobilization after
World War II

H.W. Brands, The Strange Death of American Liberalism (2001).

Melissa - Elaine May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era, 1988

Paul Boyer, By the Bomb’s Early Light, 1985

Ellen Schrecker, Many are the Crimes : McCarthyism in America, 1998

David Oshinsky, A Conspiracy So Immense: the World of Joe McCarthy, 1983

Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1989

Patricia Sullivan, Days of hope: race and democracy in the New Deal Era, 1996

Godfrey Hodgson, The World Turned Right Side Up: A History of the Conservative Ascendancy in America

OR George Nash, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945

Resources:

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