The liberal persuasion : Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and the challenge of the American past /
For more than half a century, the celebrated historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., has been the guiding force of American liberalism, both intellectually and in practice. The author of many critically acclaimed books, Schlesinger vigorously defended FDR's New Deal policies in his earliest writings...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Princeton legacy library.
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Table of Contents:
- The historian and the public realm / William E. Leuchtenberg
- The historian as political advisor / Hugh Thomas
- The historian and the cyles of history / George F Kennan
- The lessons of an historian / John Kenneth Gaibraith
- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: Tory Democrat / John Morton Blum
- The age of Jackson and its impact / Robert Remini
- Jacksonian abolitionist: the conversion of William Leggett / Sean Wilentz
- Race, sex, and the dimensions of liberty in antebellum America / Jean V. Matthews
- The two world wars and the idea of the state / Alan Brinkley
- Women, politics, philanthropy: some historical origins of the welfare state / Kathleen D McCarthy
- The new left, the new right, and the New Deal / Fred Stegel
- "Malaise" revisited: Jimmy Carter and the crisis of confidence / Leo P. Ribuffo
- Historical analogies and public policy: the black and immigrant experience in urban America / Richard C. Wade
- Woodrow Wilson and the Cold War / Betty Miller Unterherger
- America after the Cold War: global order, democracy, and domestic consent / Ronald Steel
- Christopher Lasch's quarrel with liberalism / Louis Menand
- Black studies as academic discipline and political struggle / Eugene D. Genovese
- William James and the strenuous responsibility of the liberal intellectual / George Cotkin
- Henry Steele Commager's activist history / Neil Jumonville
- Edmund Wilson at Oxford / Isaiah Berlin.