Making Sense of American Liberalism

Jonathan Bell is an associate professor of history at the University of Reading, England, and the author of The Liberal State on Trial: The Cold War and American Politics in the Truman Years. Timothy Stanley is a member of the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, and the author of The Crusader: The Life and Tumultuous Times of Pat Buchanan.

• CoverTitle PageCopyright PageContentsIntroduction Timothy Stanley and Jonathan BellPart I: Liberals and the Left1. Partners for Progress? Liberals and Radicals in the Long Twentieth Century Doug Rossinow2. From Popular Front to Liberalism: Redefining the Political in California in the Post-World War II3. Going Beyond the New Deal: Socialists and the Democratic Party in the 1970s Timothy Stanley4. From Friends to Foes: George McGovern, Hubert Humphrey, and the Fracture in American Liberalism BPart II: Liberals and Urban Policy5. New York Liberalism and the Fight against Homelessness Ella Howard6. Liberalism in the Postwar City: Public and Private Power in Urban Renewal Lizabeth CohenPart III: Coalitions7. Albert Gore Sr., Liberalism and the South in the 1960s Tony Badger8. Forgotten Architects of the Second Reconstruction Republicans and Cvil Rights, 1945-1972 Timothy9. Liberal Feminism and the Reshaping of the New Deal Order Susan M. Hartmann10. Labor, Liberalism, and the Democratic Party: A Fruitful but Vexed Alliance Nelson LichtensteinContributorsIndexBack Cover

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