The liberal dilemma : the pragmatic tradition in the age of McCarthyism /
This volume explores the response of liberals to rightwing attacks during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and early 1950s, establishing it as a defensive approach aimed at warding off efforts to conflate liberalism with communism, but not at striking back at the opposing ideology of conservatism its...
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New York :
Routledge,
2020.
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| Series: | Routledge advances in American history.
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Table of Contents:
- Student v. student: two episodes
- War by other means
- Homer G. Richey and the political power of a symbol
- Mapping the liberal mind: Paul Wilson Sullivan
- Conclusion: vital center or excluded middle?