Testing American Liberalism in the Cold War Years | Featuring James Traub

15/03/2024 42 min Temporada 5 Episodio 12
Testing American Liberalism in the Cold War Years | Featuring James Traub

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Testing American Liberalism in the Cold War Years In this episode journalist and historian James Traub delves into the paradoxical nature of liberalism in the post war years. The continuation of New Deal social and economic reforms charactarized a society of consensus in fulfillment of democratic ideals in the Cold War years. However, the illusory impression was built on the continuiation of Jim Crow systems in the South deepening racial inequity in the rest of the country. Resistance stirred underneath consensus and the illusion of an expanding liberalism and democratic enhancement. James Traub is an American journalist and scholar specializing in international affairs. 

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