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Detroit's Cold War: The Origins of Postwar Conservatism (Working Class in American History) Paperback – Illustrated, September 15, 2017

by Colleen Doody (Author)
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Detroit's Cold War locates the roots of American conservatism in a city that was a nexus of labor and industry in postwar America. Drawing on meticulous archival research focusing on Detroit, Colleen Doody shows how conflict over business values and opposition to labor, anticommunism, racial animosity, and religion led to the development of a conservative ethos in the aftermath of World War II.

 

Using Detroit--with its large population of African-American and Catholic immigrant workers, strong union presence, and starkly segregated urban landscape--as a case study, Doody articulates a nuanced understanding of anticommunism during the Red Scare. Looking beyond national politics, she focuses on key debates occurring at the local level among a wide variety of common citizens. In examining this city's social and political fabric, Doody illustrates that domestic anticommunism was a cohesive, multifaceted ideology that arose less from Soviet ideological incursion than from tensions within the American public.

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  1. Part of series
    Working Class in American History
  2. Print length
    192 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    University of Illinois Press
  5. Publication date
    September 15, 2017
  6. Dimensions
    6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0252083105
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0252083105
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"Colleen Doody agrees with those scholars who see a contested New Deal liberalism and a powerful conservation before the latter's flowering in the 1970s. Her most important contribution is to show how 'the ideas that became central to this [conservative] movement developed at a grassroots level much earlier.'"--Labour/Le Travail
 
"[A] well-written, and solidly researched book. Detroil's Cold War is highly recommended. It will be useful in undergraduate courses, and is an important contribution to the emerging scholarship on the rise of conservatism in twentieth century America."--American Catholic Studies



"Detroit's Cold War is a concise, clearly written, and sensibly organized book.  It highlights important trends in the United States that have yet to run their course."--The Michigan Historical Review

"Colleen Doody's insightful study of Cold War Detroit introduces readers to a profoundly conservative political history that maps onto and intersects with the history of labor radicalism in the Motor City."--American Historical Review


 




"Urban historians and historians of conservatism will. . . value the detailed research on the varied dimensions of anticommunist politics in the heart of a New Deal protégé."--The Journal of American History

"An important and well-timed book. Doody's rich historical analysis helps to situate the contemporary mistrust and criticism toward unions, collective action, and the welfare state throughout the USA."--Labor Studies Journal





"Colleen Doody makes the important argument that deep-seated social and political conflicts--which were not always linked to the actual communist movement--produced the extraordinary wave of anticommunism that gripped the country during the decade after World War II."

--Joshua B. Freeman, author of Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II

About the Author


Colleen Doody is an assistant professor of history at DePaul University.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Illinois Press; Reprint edition (September 15, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0252083105
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0252083105
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
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Colleen Doody is an associate professor of history at DePaul University in Chicago. She specializes in 20th century US History.

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Ashley
5.0 out of 5 stars First-rate Modern History
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2013
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I thoroughly enjoyed DePaul Professor Colleen Doody's "Detroit's Cold War." Using Detroit as a microcosm for the post-war era, the book examines the roots of the modern conservative movement. Doody weaves examples from labor-relations, politics, race and religion to illustrate the origins of many of our current societal conflicts, and she does so in a remarkably engaging way. She has produced a brilliant yet accessible historical work.
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CiCi
4.0 out of 5 stars Enlightening
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2013
I found Detroit's Cold War to be an illuminating glimpse into the origins of not only modern conservatism, but modern organized labor. As a child of the post-Cold War era, communism was a thing of the past, and my entire experience with politics has been what we now consider the standard liberal vs. conservative system. To learn how recently our modern conservative party developed, and the impetus behind that ideology, was fascinating. I was completely ignorant of the influence the American communist party had on the organization and rise to power of labor unions, as well as how organized labor, civil rights, and anti-communism shaped the burgeoning conservative movement.

Ms. Doody's analysis of how anti-communism, labor relations, civil rights, and religious traditionalism impacted public opinion, served to provide a new framework for my understanding of our current political landscape.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Linking anticommunism to conservatism in this case study of Detroit ...
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Linking anticommunism to conservatism in this case study of Detroit made for an insightful analysis. I will be drawing on this material in any discussion of McCarthyism in America.
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