LEADER 03483nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910820330103321 005 20240418000106.0 010 $a1-281-72966-3 010 $a9786611729660 010 $a0-300-12774-X 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300127744 035 $a(CKB)1000000000471937 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23049442 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000251910 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11244207 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000251910 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10169181 035 $a(PQKB)10742208 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3419988 035 $a(DE-B1597)484797 035 $a(OCoLC)952731911 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300127744 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3419988 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10170014 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL172966 035 $a(OCoLC)923589456 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000471937 100 $a20010322d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe strange death of American liberalism /$fH. W. Brands 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven, [Conn.] $cYale University Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-09021-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 187-190) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1 A Nation of Skeptics --$t2 Beneath the Eagle's Wings --$t3 The War That Never Ended --$t4 Liberals All! --$t5 From Hubris to Suttee --$t6 The Contradictions of Cold War Conservatism --$t7 Nunc Dimittis --$tAfterword: The Lazarus Option --$tNotes --$tSources --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aIn this provocative book, H. W. Brands confronts the vital question of why an ever-increasing number of Americans do not trust the federal government to improve their lives and to heal major social ills. How is it that government has come to be seen as the source of many of our problems, rather than the potential means of their solution? How has the word liberal become a term of abuse in American political discourse? From the Revolution on, argues Brands, Americans have been chronically skeptical of their government. This book succinctly traces this skepticism, demonstrating that it is only during periods of war that Americans have set aside their distrust and looked to their government to defend them. The Cold War, Brands shows, created an extended-and historically anomalous-period of dependence, thereby allowing for the massive expansion of the American welfare state. Since the 1970's, and the devastating blow dealt to Cold War ideology by America's defeat in Vietnam, Americans have returned to their characteristic distrust of government. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Brands contends, the fate of American liberalism was sealed-and we continue to live with the consequences of its demise. 606 $aLiberalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989 615 0$aLiberalism$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory 676 $a320.51/3/0973 700 $aBrands$b H. W$0475062 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820330103321 996 $aStrange death of American liberalism$91219954 997 $aUNINA