TY - BOOK AU - Alterman,Eric AU - Mattson,Kevin TI - The cause: the fight for American liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama SN - 9780143121640 (pbk.) AV - JC 574.2 A466c 2012 U1 - 320.51/30973 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Viking KW - Liberalismo KW - Historia KW - Siglo XX KW - Estados Unidos KW - Historia del liberalismo KW - Siglo XIX KW - Liberalism KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Política y gobierno KW - Politics and government KW - Siglo XXI N1 - 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?" ER -