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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Main Author: Michaels, Jonathan, 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2020.
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?