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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813538203321

Titolo

Making sense of American liberalism [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jonathan Bell and Timothy Stanley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012

ISBN

0-252-09398-4

1-283-99351-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BellJonathan <1976->

StanleyTimothy

Disciplina

320.51/30973

Soggetti

Liberalism - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Partners for progress: liberals and radicals in the long twentieth century / Doug Rossinow -- From popular front to liberalism: redefining the political in California in the post-World War II era / / Jonathan Bell -- Going beyond the New Deal: socialists and the democratic party in the 1970s / Timothy Stanley -- From friends to foes: George McGovern, Hubert Humphrey, and the fracture in American liberalism / Bruce Miroff -- New York liberalism and the fight against homelessness / Ella Howard -- Liberalism in the post-war city: public and private power in urban renewal / Lizabeth Cohen -- Albert Gore Sr.: liberalism and the South in the 1960s / Tony Badger -- Forgotten architects of the second reconstruction: Republicans and civil rights, 1945-1972 / Timothy N. Thurber -- Liberal feminism and the shaping of the New Deal order / Susan M. Hartmann -- Labor, liberalism, and the democratic party: a fruitful but vexed alliance / Nelson Lichtenstein.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of thoughtful and timely essays offers refreshing and intelligent new perspectives on postwar American liberalism. Sophisticated yet accessible, 'Making Sense of American Liberalism' challenges popular myths about liberalism in the United States.