Download or read book Rethinking the 1950s written by Jennifer A. Delton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer A. Delton argues that, far from subverting the New Deal state, anticommunism and the Cold War enabled, fulfilled, and even surpassed the New Deal's reform agenda. Anticommunism solidified liberal political power and the Cold War justified liberal goals such as jobs creation, corporate regulation, economic redevelopment, and civil rights.