Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of LiberalismThe history of modern liberalism has been hotly debated in contemporary politics and the academy. Here, Judith Stein uses the steel industry long considered fundamental to the U. S. economy to examine liberal policies and priorities after World War II. In a provocative revision of postwar American history, she argues that it was the primacy of foreign commitments and the outdated economic policies of the state, more than the nation's racial conflicts,