Enduring Liberalism
Subtitle: American Political Thought Since the 1960s (Modern War Studies)
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780700609741
Subjects: Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies; Public opinion & polls; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Political Science; Liberalism; Political Theory; Politics / Current Events; United States; Politics/International Relations; USA; History & Theory - General; History; Political Process - Political Parties; 20th century; Consensus (Social sciences)
Description: "Has the United States become more pluribus than unum? In terms of the nation's political beliefs, Robert Booth Fowler answers both yes and no. While his study affirms significant diversity among an elite cadre of public intellectuals, it vigorously denies it in a general public that collectively adheres to the same set of liberal core values."--BOOK JACKET.

"Enduring Liberalism pursues two objectives. One, it explores the political thought of public intellectuals and the general public since the 1960s. Two, it assesses contemporary and classic interpretations of American political thought in light of the study's findings."--BOOK JACKET.

"Fowler interprets the writings of public intellectuals like Robert Bellah, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Michael Walzer, William Bennett, Seymour Martin Lipset, William Galston, and others, as well as survey data of American political attitudes, to spotlight this oft-ignored divide between citizens and high-profile commentators, whose contentious debates are mistakenly assumed to reflect countrywide rifts."--BOOK JACKET.