The cause
Subtitle: the fight for American liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama
By: Eric Alterman and Kevin Mattson
Contributors: Mattson, Kevin, 1966-
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780670023431
Subjects: Politics and government; Liberalism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the inheritance; title: Henry, Harry, and Eleanor: three faces of liberalism; title: The breaking point; title: Is there anything we can do for you, Harry?; title: The key to the destiny of tomorrow: toward a philosophy and practice of liberal foreign policy; title: Culture warriors before their time, 1944-50; title: The first culture war: McCarthyism and the limits of liberalism; title: Eggheads in the wilderness; title: Civil rights wins, communism wanes, and liberalism is reborn; title: The thousand days; title: Master of disaster; title: Paranoia strikes deep in the heartland; title: In the darkness at the edge of town; title: Malaise; title: The Carter interregnum; title: The even bleaker years, 1980-88; title: Reentering the world of ideas, rethinking the vital center, and the rise, fall, and rise of Bill Clinton, 1988-99; title: Beautiful losers; title: "Hope and change?".