Divided They Fell: The Demise of the Democratic Party, 1964-1996.

Davies, Gareth; Radosh, Ronald

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“…That said, Great Society liberalism was not damned from the outset: the Endowment survived the fiscal pressures of the end of the decade, and in the early-to-mid 1970s, the agency's budget grew and grew ever larger. Thus, whilst scholars such as Allen Matusow and Ronald Radosh have emphasized the ways in which the Vietnam War led to the unravelling of American liberalism, this finding does not hold true when one examines the cultural realm (Matusow 1984;Radosh 1996). Once signed into existence, most congressmen supported the Endowment, despite the best efforts of conservatives and other programme critics during the Culture Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.…”

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Artistic scarcity in an age of material abundance: President Lyndon Johnson, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Great Society liberalism

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2017

European Journal of American Culture

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1965 saw President Lyndon Johnson push an incredible number of reform bills through Congress as part of his quest for a Great Society – including legislation to create a National Endowment for the Arts (the federal agency that provides grants to artists and arts organizations in the United States). Public confidence was riding high, the economy was good, and Americans demonstrated a remarkable faith in the capacity of the federal government to solve domestic problems. And yet in this age of abundance, Johnson drew on the rhetoric of scarcity to promulgate his domestic policy. When the President spoke of the cultural aspects of the Great Society he typically emphasized qualitative and quantitative goals, i.e. the power of the arts to improve the quality of life of ordinary Americans and to reduce a perceived imbalance between the haves and the have-nots. Whereas other studies have relegated the cultural aspects of the Great Society to the side-lines, this study places such matters centre stage through an analysis of the rationales behind the creation and early programming of the Endowment. In so doing, it illuminates the inherent contradictions of, and tensions within, American liberalism in the mid-1960s.

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Artistic scarcity in an age of material abundance: President Lyndon Johnson, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Great Society liberalism

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Divided They Fell: The Demise of the Democratic Party, 1964-1996.

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Artistic scarcity in an age of material abundance: President Lyndon Johnson, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Great Society liberalism

Artistic scarcity in an age of material abundance: President Lyndon Johnson, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Great Society liberalism

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