Ebook {Epub PDF} The Gifted Generation: When Government Was Good by David R. Goldfield

Spencer County Public Library. (State of Indiana Libraries) Services. Navigate; Linked Data; Dashboard; Tools / Extras. "In The Gifted Generation, a fresh interpretation of post-World War II America, historian David Goldfield examines the generation immediately after the war. He argues that the federal government was instrumental in the great economic, social, and environmental progress of the era. A sweeping and path-breaking history of the post–World War II decades, during which an activist federal government guided the country toward the first real flowering of the American Dream. In The Gifted Generation, historian David Goldfield examines the generation immediately after World War II and argues that the federal government was instrumental in the great economic, social, and environmental /5.

David Goldfield cures our amnesia with a sparkling, sweeping and deeply engaging account of an era 'when government was good' because so many Americans recognized the good that it did. May The Gifted Generation change this generation's view of the progress that is possible." - E.J. Dionne Jr, author of OUR DIVIDED POLITICAL HEART and ONE NATION. A sweeping and path-breaking history of the post-World War II decades, during which an activist federal government guided the country toward the first real flowering of the American Dream In The Gifted Generation, historian David Goldfield examines the generation immediately after World War II and argues that the federal government was instrumental in the great economic, social, and. THE GIFTED GENERATION When Government Was Good By David Goldfield Illustrated. pp. Bloomsbury. $ Approaching the midpoint of this good-hearted book, David Goldfield pauses to reflect on.

["A history of the post-World War II decades traces the efforts of an activist federal government to guide the U.S. toward a realization of the American Dream, exploring the era's unprecedented economic, social, and environmental growth. --Publisher", '"In The Gifted Generation, a fresh interpretation of post-World War II America, historian David Goldfield examines the generation immediately. In The Gifted Generation David Goldfield argues that when America was “great”—back in the s and s—it was because its government embraced a public-minded activism that gifted an entire generation with the benefits of education, infrastructure, economic opportunity, scientific discoveries, and expanding notions of inclusiveness. David Goldfield's gracefully written The Gifted Generation is a bracing reminder that the first three presidents after Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated in concrete ways that an activist government did have a critical and positive role to play in improving the lives of Americans, black and white, poor and middle class. Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and Lyndon had their partisan differences, but they shared a belief in the 'Commonwealth' ideal: a government that strengthened individualism by.