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• "Winner of A 1996 Choice Magazine ""Outstanding Academic Title."
• Winner of A 1996 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title.
• Winner of A 1996 Choice Magazine ""Outstanding Academic Title.

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"""One of the many virtues of Kevin Boyle's brilliant and important history, The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, is that it provides a clear picture of the road not taken.""-The American Prospect ""Intelligent, well written, and exhaustively researched, ... Boyle's work ... is part of an important and increasingly favorable reevaluation of the character of late New Deal social democracy.""-Journal of American History ""Boyle's book presents, with a remarkably assured tone and a mastery of materials, a persuasive narrative of the shortcomings of postwar liberalism from the labor perspective that was so important then and is so often ignored today.""-American Political Science Review ""This book constitutes a compelling argument that throughout the immediate post-war decades, the union's leadership under Reuther attempted to construct a cross-class, biracial reform coalition in the United States... The role and influence of institutions in the making of history is surely an argument that labour historians ignore at their own peril. Post-war United States labour historical scholarship has been surely enriched by Boyle pointing that out in such a compelling fashion.""-Harry Knowles, University of Sydney. The Journal of Industrial Relations. September, 2000."

One of the many virtues of Kevin Boyle's brilliant and important history, The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, is that it provides a clear picture of the road not taken. -The American Prospect Intelligent, well written, and exhaustively researched, ... Boyle's work ... is part of an important and increasingly favorable reevaluation of the character of late New Deal social democracy. -Journal of American History Boyle's book presents, with a remarkably assured tone and a mastery of materials, a persuasive narrative of the shortcomings of postwar liberalism from the labor perspective that was so important then and is so often ignored today. -American Political Science Review This book constitutes a compelling argument that throughout the immediate post-war decades, the union's leadership under Reuther attempted to construct a cross-class, biracial reform coalition in the United States... The role and influence of institutions in the making of history is surely an argument that labour historians ignore at their own peril. Post-war United States labour historical scholarship has been surely enriched by Boyle pointing that out in such a compelling fashion. -Harry Knowles, University of Sydney. The Journal of Industrial Relations. September, 2000.

A Choice Magazine 'Outstanding Academic Book for 1996' 'Kevin Boyle has done a masterful job of identifying the unique contribution of the UAW, not only to American Liberalism, but also to the nation and to all people. As contemporary labor and society at large search for new directions, this book should be required reading.' Victor G. Reuther 'One of the many virtues of Kevin Boyle's brilliant and important history, The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, is that it provides a clear picture of the road not taken.' The American Prospect 'Intelligent, well written, and exhaustively researched,...Boyle's work...is part of an important and increasingly favorable reevaluation of the character of late New Deal social democracy.' Journal of American History '[Boyle's] book presents, with a remarkably assured tone and a mastery of materials, a persuasive narrative of the shortcomings of postwar liberalism from the labor perspective that was so important then and is so often ignored today.' American Political Science Review

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Kevin Boyle is Associate Professor of History at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, coauthor of Muddy Boots and Ragged Aprons: Images of Working-Class Detroit, and editor of Organized Labor and American Politics.

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