Age of Fracture

by Daniel T. Rodgers

Book Overview

In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the ideas that most Americans lived by started to fragment. Mid-century concepts of national consensus, managed markets, gender and racial identities, citizen obligation, and historical memory became more fluid. Flexible markets pushed aside Keynesian macroeconomic structures. Racial and gender solidarity divided into multiple identities; community responsibility shrank to smaller circles. In this wide-ranging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674064364
• ISBN13: 9780674064362
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"