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Document 1 of 99 Nelson Rockefeller, Racial Politics, and the Undoing of Moderate Republicanism Author: Barrett, Marsha Eileen http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1524951536?accountid=14709 Abstract: "Nelson Rockefeller, Racial Politics, and the Undoing of Moderate Republicanism" examines shifts in the political terrain of the 1960s as related to social issues such as civil rights, crime, and welfare. The political career of Nelson Rockefeller, four-term Governor of New York (1958-1973), three-time candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, and iconic twentieth century moderate Republican, serves as a lens for understanding many moderate and liberal politicians' struggle to navigate racial politics before and after the passage of the Civil and Voting Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965. Rockefeller's transition from racially liberal advocate for the end of Jim Crow to early adopter of punitive drug laws that disproportionately affected racial minorities provides insight into the difficulty faced by liberals, both Republican and Democratic, when race became central to the political debates of the 1960s. This work reveals that liberal support for racial parity fractured and further entrenched inequality when the nation's focus shifted from equality under the law to the more complex and intractable issues of equality in economic opportunity, housing, schooling, and criminal justice. "Nelson Rockefeller, Racial Politics, and the Undoing of Moderate Republicanism" examines shifts in popular opinion alongside the actions of politicians and political activists to provide a new perspective on the passage of legislation and implementation of social policies. Charting Rockefeller's political prospects through the reactions of his constituents also creates opportunities to understand the eclipse of the moderate Republican tradition without focusing on the rise of conservative Republican icons of the 1960s. This study relies upon varied sources such as the public and private papers of Nelson Rockefeller, constituent letters, documents produced by the Republican National Committee, popular periodicals, polling data, public hearings, oral histories, and visual artifacts to create a work that takes into account people from all castes and classes regardless of party affiliation who felt the effects of Rockefeller's political activism. Links: http://RT4RF9QN2Y.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ve r=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF- 8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQuest+Dissertations+%26+The ses+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:diss ertation&rft.genre=dissertations+%26+theses&am p;rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=Barrett%2C+Mar sha+Eileen&rft.aulast=Barrett&rft.aufirst=Mar sha&rft.date=2014-01- 01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&a mp;rft.isbn=9781303843518&rft.btitle=&rft.titl e=Nelson+Rockefeller%2C+Racial+Politics%2C+and+th e+Undoing+of+Moderate+Republicanism&rft.issn= &rft_id=info:doi/ http://RT4RF9QN2Y.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ve r=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF- 8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQuest+Dissertations+%26+The ses+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:diss ertation&rft.genre=dissertations+%26+theses&am p;rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=Barrett%2C+Mar sha+Eileen&rft.aulast=Barrett&rft.aufirst=Mar sha&rft.date=2014-01- 01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&a mp;rft.isbn=9781303843518&rft.btitle=&rft.titl e=Nelson+Rockefeller%2C+Racial+Politics%2C+and+th e+Undoing+of+Moderate+Republicanism&rft.issn= &rft_id=info:doi/ Subject: Biographies; American history; Public administration; Public policy Classification: 0304: Biographies; 0337: American history; 0617: Public administration; 0630: Public policy Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Rockefeller, Nelson, Civil rights, Social and racial politics, Policy generation, Moderate Republicanism, Republican Party, New York, Crime and narcotics, Rockefeller drug laws Title: Nelson Rockefeller, Racial Politics, and the Undoing of Moderate Republicanism Number of pages: 424 Publication year: 2014 Degree date: 2014 School code: 0190 Source: DAI-A 75/07(E), Jan 2015 Place of publication: Ann Arbor Country of publication: United States ISBN: 9781303843518 Advisor: Greenberg, David Committee member: White, Deborah Gray, Katznelson, Ira, Mittelstadt, Jennifer, Murch, Donna University/institution: Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick Department: History University location: United States -- New Jersey Degree: Ph.D. Source type: Dissertations & Theses Language: English Document type: Dissertation/Thesis Dissertation/thesis number: 3617206 ProQuest document ID: 1524951536 Document URL: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1524951536?accountid=14709 Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2014 Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text ____________________________________________________________ Document 2 of 99 Writing contingent histories: Temporality and the construction of progress in nineteenth-century american literature Author: Zogas, Peter http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1520021133?accountid=14709 Abstract: Writing Contingent Histories argues that the historiographic dimensions of nineteenth-century American literature should be understood as both testing and contesting cultural assumptions of progress that emerged broadly during that time--assumptions ranging from political ideologies and models of exceptionalism to the projects of reform, abolition, and Reconstruction. It contends that these engagements were shaped through encounters with contemporary developments in the philosophy of history and calls attention to this line of influence with particular emphasis on post-Enlightenment theories of the nation, in which "newness" emerged as a central temporal category supporting narratives of distinctly progressive historical development. In readings of James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Charles W. Chesnutt, this project finds the distinctly historiographic work of American literature in the nineteenth century to be its iteration of aesthetic experiences of historical knowledge in relation to theoretical frameworks that sustained concepts of national, racial, and moral progress throughout the century. The Introduction demonstrates the confluence of history and progress in post-Enlightenment theories of the nation and argues for the role of contingent modes of knowledge and narration to our understanding of the function of literature in the nineteenth century. Chapter One uses Cooper's early Leatherstocking Tales to explore the function of antiquity in the historical romance, particularly in its bearing on varying frames of temporal experience that had to be navigated and at times suppressed in order to buttress an image of post- Revolutionary progress. In Chapter Two Hawthorne's short fiction is read alongside the theoretical assumptions of Romantic history, particularly the possibility of a communal judgment of the past. The chapter finds that Hawthorne's work illustrates the interplay of history's hermeneutic basis and its communal reception that marks the attempts of both individuals and communities to inhabit political positions. Chapter Three turns to Emerson's engagement with European theories of universal history, particularly in their tendency to negate the historical potential of the individual. The chapter contends that Emerson--in contrast to universal history- -demonstrates that individual potentiality arises from a stance of dissatisfaction with the social forms inherited from past generations. Chapter Four reads Chesnutt's novel The Marrow of Tradition in light of an emerging school of Reconstruction historiography headed by William A. Dunning and finds that Chesnutt resists a positivistic history of narrative closure and abstraction by invoking a model of polyvocal historical experience. Links: http://RT4RF9QN2Y.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ve r=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF- 8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQuest+Dissertations+%26+The ses+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:diss ertation&rft.genre=dissertations+%26+theses&am p;rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=Zogas%2C+Pete r&rft.aulast=Zogas&rft.aufirst=Peter&rft. date=2014-01- 01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&a mp;rft.isbn=9781303807084&rft.btitle=&rft.titl e=Writing+contingent+histories%3A+Temporality+and+t he+construction+of+progress+in+nineteenth- century+american+literature&rft.issn=&rft_id= info:doi/ http://RT4RF9QN2Y.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ve r=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF- 8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQuest+Dissertations+%26+The ses+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:diss ertation&rft.genre=dissertations+%26+theses&am p;rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=Zogas%2C+Pete r&rft.aulast=Zogas&rft.aufirst=Peter&rft. date=2014-01- 01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&a mp;rft.isbn=9781303807084&rft.btitle=&rft.titl e=Writing+contingent+histories%3A+Temporality+and+t he+construction+of+progress+in+nineteenth- century+american+literature&rft.issn=&rft_id= info:doi/ Subject: American studies; American history; American literature Classification: 0323: American studies; 0337: American history; 0591: American literature Identifier / keyword: Language,