Where have all the liberals gone?
Subtitle: race, class, and ideals in America
By: James R. Flynn.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780521494311
Subjects: Herrnstein, Richard J.; Idealism, American.; Intelligence levels -- Social aspects.; Equality -- United States.; Socialism -- United States.
Other titles: Race, class, and ideals in America
Description: Where Have All the Liberals Gone? addresses everyone - liberal or conservative - who wants "something better than a foreign policy that provokes disgust, domestic politics with neither vision nor the resourcses to promote the common godd, and a foolish relativism that reduces all ideals to the lowest common denominator."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-327) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Something beautiful is vanished; title: The lost boys; title: What Germany did that America has not; title: Do we want affirmative action for whites only?; title: Saving equality from the dustbin of history; title: Jefferson and social democracy; title: The America who would be king; title: William James and Leo Strauss; title: The status of the good life; title: Choosing to be free.