The Liberal Persuasion : : Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and the Challenge of the American Past / / ed. by John Patrick Diggins.

• MitwirkendeR: Berlin, Isaiah,; Blum, John Morton,; Brinkley, Alan,; Cotkin, George,; Diggins, John Patrick,; Galbraith, John Kenneth,; Genovese, Eugene D.,; Jumonville, Neil,; Kennan, George F.,; Leuchthnburg, William E.,; Lind, Michael,; Matthews, Jean V.,; McCarthy, Kathleen D.,; Menand, Louis,; Remini, Robert,; Ribuffo, Leo P.,; Siegel, Fred,; Steel, Ronald,; Thomas, Hugh,; Unterberger, Betty Miller,; Wade, Richard C.,; Wilentz, Sean,
• HerausgeberIn: Diggins, John Patrick,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5213
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (332 p.)

For more than half a century, the celebrated historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., has been the guiding force of American liberalism, both intellectually and in practice. The author of many critically acclaimed books, Schlesinger vigorously defended FDR's New Deal policies in his earliest writings...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction. The Vital Historian
• Part One: History as a Vocation
• 1. The Historian and the Public Realm
• 2. The Historian as Political Advisor
• 3. The Historian and the Cycles of History
• 4. The Lessons of an Historian
• 5. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: Tory Democrat
• Part Two: The Era of Andrew Jackson
• 6. The Age of Jackson and its Impact
• 7. Jacksonian Abolitionist: The Conversion of William Leggett
• 8. Race, Sex, and the Dimensions of Liberty in Antebellum America
• Part Three: Modern Liberalism and the Challenge of Governance
• 9. The Two World Wars and the Idea of the State
• 10. Women, Politics, Philanthropy: Some Historical Origins of the Welfare State
• 11. The New Left, the New Right, and the New Deal
• 12.“Malaise” Revisited: Jimmy Carter and the Crisis of Confidence
• 13. Historical Analogies and Public Policy: The Black and Immigrant Experience in Urban America
• Part Four: America and the World
• 14. Woodrow Wilson and the Cold War
• 15. America after the Cold War: Global Order, Democracy, and Domestic Consent
• Part Five: Ideological Controversies
• 16. Christopher Lasch’s Quarrel with Liberalism
• 17. Black Studies as Academic Discipline and Political Struggle
• Part Six: Intellectual Heroes
• 18. William James and the Strenuous Responsibility of the Liberal Intellectual
• 19. Henry Steele Commager’s Activist History
• 20. Edmund Wilson at Oxford
• Selected Bibliography of Works by Schlesinger
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Index