Conservative Counterrevolution: Challenging Liberalism in 1950s Milwaukee

by Tula A Connell

Book Overview

In the 1950s, Milwaukee's strong union movement and socialist mayor seemed to embody a dominant liberal consensus that sought to continue and expand the New Deal. Tula Connell explores how business interests and political conservatives arose to undo that consensus, and how the resulting clash both shaped a city and helped redefine postwar American politics. Connell focuses on Frank Zeidler, the city's socialist mayor. Zeidler's broad concept of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252081420
• ISBN13: 9780252081422
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"