The cause the fight for American liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama
A history of American liberalism since the Great Depression traces the pivotal roles of leading contributors, describing how their ambitions, flaws, and successes have shaped the nation's government, media, and culture.
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Viking,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the inheritance
- Henry, Harry, and Eleanor: three faces of liberalism
- The breaking point
- Is there anything we can do for you, Harry?
- The key to the destiny of tomorrow: toward a philosophy and practice of liberal foreign policy
- Culture warriors before their time, 1944-50
- The first culture war: McCarthyism and the limits of liberalism
- Eggheads in the wilderness
- Civil rights wins, communism wanes, and liberalism is reborn
- The thousand days
- Master of disaster
- Paranoia strikes deep in the heartland
- In the darkness at the edge of town
- Malaise
- The Carter interregnum
- The even bleaker years, 1980-88
- Reentering the world of ideas, rethinking the vital center, and the rise, fall, and rise of Bill Clinton, 1988-99
- Beautiful losers
- "Hope and change?".
