Kim Phillips-Fein Research Articles

The 9/11 Commission Report

Book Review| January 01 2007 The 9/11 Commission Report The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States. New York: Norton, 2004. Kim Phillips-Fein Kim Phillips-Fein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (97): 163–169. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-022 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kim Phillips-Fein; The 9/11 Commission Report. Radical History Review 1 January 2007; 2007 (97): 163–169. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-022 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsRadical History Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc.2007 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: (RE)VIEWS You do not currently have access to this content.

“If Business and the Country Will Be Run Right:” The Business Challenge to the Liberal Consensus, 1945–1964

Abstract“‘If Business and the Country Will Be Run Right:’ The Business Challenge to the Liberal Consensus, 1945–1964,” by Kim Phillips-Fein, looks at the mobilization of conservative businessmen against the liberal political economy that emerged from the New Deal and the Second World War. These businessmen were sharply critical of the expanded federal government and strong labor unions throughout the postwar period. They sought to challenge the liberal economic order by helping to build think tanks critical of liberalism, by fighting labor unions, and ultimately by participating in political activities like the right-to-work campaigns of 1958, the gubernatorial bid of William F. Knowland in California that same year, and the presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater. By demonstrating the development of a network of conservative businessmen during this period, the article challenges the idea that “consensus” is the appropriate framework for thinking about postwar political economy. It also suggests the centrality of issues of political economy in the rise of conservatism in the postwar United States.