The cause : the fight for American liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama /
Eric Alterman and Kevin Mattson.
- New York : Viking, 2012.
- xi, 561 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-541) and index.
Introduction: the inheritance -- Henry, Harry, and Eleanor: three faces of liberalism -- The breaking point -- Is there anything we can do for you, Harry? -- The key to the destiny of tomorrow: toward a philosophy and practice of liberal foreign policy -- Culture warriors before their time, 1944-50 -- The first culture war: McCarthyism and the limits of liberalism -- Eggheads in the wilderness -- Civil rights wins, communism wanes, and liberalism is reborn -- The thousand days -- Master of disaster -- Paranoia strikes deep in the heartland -- In the darkness at the edge of town -- Malaise -- The Carter interregnum -- The even bleaker years, 1980-88 -- Reentering the world of ideas, rethinking the vital center, and the rise, fall, and rise of Bill Clinton, 1988-99 -- Beautiful losers -- "Hope and change?".
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