Liberalism and Its Discontents / / Alan Brinkley.

• VerfasserIn: Brinkley, Alan,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

How did liberalism, the great political tradition that from the New Deal to the 1960s seemed to dominate American politics, fall from favor so far and so fast? In this history of liberalism since the 1930s, a distinguished historian offers an eloquent account of postwar liberalism, where it came fro...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt
• 2. The New Deal Experiments
• 3. The Late New Deal and the Idea of the State
• 4. The New Deal and Southern Politics
• 5. The Two World Wars and American Liberalism
• 6. Legacies of World War II
• 7. Historians and the Interwar Years
• 8. Hofstadter’s The Age of Reform Reconsidered
• 9. Robert Penn Warren, T. Harry Williams, and Huey Long
• 10. Icons of the American Establishment
• 11. The Posthumous Lives of John F. Kennedy
• 12. Therapeutic Radicalism of the New Left
• 13. Allard Lowenstein and the Ordeal of Liberalism
• 14. The Taming of the Political Convention
• 15. The Passions of Oral Roberts
• 16. The Problem of American Conservatism
• 17. Historians and Their Publics
• Notes
• Sources
• Index