California Crucible: The Forging of Modern American Liberalism
Jonathan Bell
352 pages | 6 x 9
Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4387-1 | $47.50 | £31.00
A volume in the Politics and Culture in Modern America series
"Deeply researched and forcefully argued, California Crucible reveals how a grassroots Democratic political project in California began to emerge in the 1940s and came to control party politics by the mid-1970s. Bell's Democrats are a distinctively post-New Deal phenomenon, and by showing their resilience and influence, the so-called rise of the Right, in Bell's rendering, is hardly the undisputed vanquishing of the Left that historians of American conservatism claim it to be."–Mark Brilliant, University of California, Berkeley
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