Making sense of American liberalism /edited by Jonathan Bell and Timothy Stanley. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

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

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.



2019718843

015995327 Uk


Liberalism--United States.


Electronic Books.

JC574 / .M355 2012