Doug Rossinow, Associate Professor of History at Metropolitan State University, is the author of The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America.

• IntroductionChapter 1. The Emergence of the New LiberalismChapter 2. War and RevolutionChapter 3. Third-Party Organizing and the New DealChapter 4. The Popular Front and Racial LiberalismChapter 5. The Cold War EraChapter 6. Vietnam and AfterNotesIndexAcknowledgments

"A fresh and highly learned examination of an essential part of U.S. political history; one that offers illuminating insights for students into the important but frequently neglected topic of liberals, leftists, and the tortured relations between the two."-Eric Alterman, author of What Liberal Media? and When Presidents Lie"Visions of Progress makes an important contribution to historical scholarship by tracing a left-liberal tradition that defies easy categorization as either radical or reformist and by recognizing that tradition's key role in the political changes of the twentieth century."-Reviews in American History"A forceful, deeply informed account of left-liberal political thought since the 1880s written from a fresh, appreciative perspective. . . . Rossinow gives us a new map of how liberal and left reformers came together through the 1940s and moved apart thereafter. He makes a persuasive case that the American reform tradition owed its vitality to the cooperation and synergy between its liberal and left wings."-Dorothy Ross, Johns Hopkins University

Doug Rossinow, Associate Professor of History at Metropolitan State University, is the author of The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America.

• IntroductionChapter 1. The Emergence of the New LiberalismChapter 2. War and RevolutionChapter 3. Third-Party Organizing and the New DealChapter 4. The Popular Front and Racial LiberalismChapter 5. The Cold War EraChapter 6. Vietnam and AfterNotesIndexAcknowledgments

"A fresh and highly learned examination of an essential part of U.S. political history; one that offers illuminating insights for students into the important but frequently neglected topic of liberals, leftists, and the tortured relations between the two."-Eric Alterman, author of What Liberal Media? and When Presidents Lie"Visions of Progress makes an important contribution to historical scholarship by tracing a left-liberal tradition that defies easy categorization as either radical or reformist and by recognizing that tradition's key role in the political changes of the twentieth century."-Reviews in American History"A forceful, deeply informed account of left-liberal political thought since the 1880s written from a fresh, appreciative perspective. . . . Rossinow gives us a new map of how liberal and left reformers came together through the 1940s and moved apart thereafter. He makes a persuasive case that the American reform tradition owed its vitality to the cooperation and synergy between its liberal and left wings."-Dorothy Ross, Johns Hopkins University

Doug Rossinow, Associate Professor of History at Metropolitan State University, is the author of The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America.

• IntroductionChapter 1. The Emergence of the New LiberalismChapter 2. War and RevolutionChapter 3. Third-Party Organizing and the New DealChapter 4. The Popular Front and Racial LiberalismChapter 5. The Cold War EraChapter 6. Vietnam and AfterNotesIndexAcknowledgments

"A fresh and highly learned examination of an essential part of U.S. political history; one that offers illuminating insights for students into the important but frequently neglected topic of liberals, leftists, and the tortured relations between the two."-Eric Alterman, author of What Liberal Media? and When Presidents Lie"Visions of Progress makes an important contribution to historical scholarship by tracing a left-liberal tradition that defies easy categorization as either radical or reformist and by recognizing that tradition's key role in the political changes of the twentieth century."-Reviews in American History"A forceful, deeply informed account of left-liberal political thought since the 1880s written from a fresh, appreciative perspective. . . . Rossinow gives us a new map of how liberal and left reformers came together through the 1940s and moved apart thereafter. He makes a persuasive case that the American reform tradition owed its vitality to the cooperation and synergy between its liberal and left wings."-Dorothy Ross, Johns Hopkins University