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Title: The Gifted Generation

Subtitle: When Government Was Good

Author: David Goldfield

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-30-17

Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

In The Gifted Generation, historian David Goldfield examines the generation immediately after World War II and argues that the federal government was instrumental in the great economic, social, and environmental progress of the era.

Following the sacrifices of the Greatest Generation, the returning vets and their children took the unprecedented economic growth and federal activism to new heights. This generation was led by presidents who believed in the commonwealth ideal: the belief that federal legislation, by encouraging individual opportunity, would result in the betterment of the entire nation. In the years after the war, these presidents created an outpouring of federal legislation that changed how and where people lived, their access to higher education, and their stewardship of the environment. They also spearheaded historic efforts to level the playing field for minorities, women and immigrants.

But this dynamic did not last, and Goldfield shows how the shrinking of the federal government shut subsequent generations off from those gifts. David Goldfield brings this unprecedented surge in American legislative and cultural history to life as he explores the presidencies of Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Lyndon Baines Johnson.

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