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The Revolt Against the Masses : How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class.
This short book rewrites the history of modern American liberalism. It shows that what we think of as liberalism--the top-and-bottom coalition we associate with President Obama--began not with Progressivism or the New Deal but rather in the wake of WWI, in disillusionment with American society. In t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Encounter Books,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This short book rewrites the history of modern American liberalism. It shows that what we think of as liberalism--the top-and-bottom coalition we associate with President Obama--began not with Progressivism or the New Deal but rather in the wake of WWI, in disillusionment with American society. In the 1920s, the first thinkers to call themselves liberals adopted the hostility to bourgeois life that had long characterized European intellectuals of both the left and right. The aim of liberalism's founders--such as Herbert Croly, Randolph Bourne, H.G. Wells, Sinclair Lewis, and H.L. Mencken--was to c. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (257 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781594037962 1594037965 |