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Liberalism and its discontents /
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 post-war liberalism, where it came fr...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1998.
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| Series: | ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The rise of Franklin Roosevelt
- The New Deal experiments
- The late New Deal and the idea of the state
- The New Deal and Southern politics
- The two world wars and American liberalism
- Legacies of World War II
- Historians and the interwar years
- Hofstadter's The Age of reform reconsidered
- Robert Penn Warren, T. Harry Williams, and Huey Long
- Icons of the American establishment
- The posthumous lives of John F. Kennedy
- Therapeutic radicalism of the New Left
- Allard Lowenstein and the ordeal of liberalism
- The taming of the political convention
- The passions of Oral Roberts
- The problem of American conservatism
- Historians and their publics.