Liberalism in the Shadow of Totalitarianism /

Liberalism in the Shadow of Totalitarianism / / David Ciepley.

This book argues that, more than any other factor, it was the encounter with totalitarianism that dissolved the ideals of American progressivism and crystallized the ideals of postwar liberalism. The New Deal began as a revolution in favor of progressive governance--executive-centered and expert-gui...

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Ciepley, David,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I. State-Building before the Totalitarian Encounter
  • 1. An Exceptional Beginning
  • 2. Social Science, Progressivism, and the State
  • II. Totalitarianism and the Economy: The Renaissance of Free Enterprise
  • 3. A Unique Economic Path
  • 4. The Quest for a Cooperative Commonwealth: NRA and AAA
  • 5. Two Roads to the Development State: TVA and NRPB
  • 6. Totalitarianism and the Scuttling of the Development State
  • 7. The Retreat from Cooperation to Fiscal Compensation
  • 8. Totalitarianism and the National Security State
  • III. Totalitarianism and Democratic Politics: The Rise of Interest Group Pluralism
  • 9. Democracy and the “Values” Question
  • 10. Envisioning Interest Group Pluralism
  • 11. Interest Group Pluralism Institutionalized
  • IV. Totalitarianism and the Court: From Higher Law to Neutrality
  • 12. Totalitarianism and the Rediscovery of Civil Liberties
  • 13. The Rise and Fall of Judicial Review before World War II
  • 14. The Neutrality Ideal Comes to Court
  • 15. Neutrality and the Due Process Revolution
  • 16. Neutrality, Civil Liberty, and the Culture Wars
  • Conclusion: The Dysfunctions of Antitotalitarian Liberalism
  • Notes
  • Index

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