When America Was Great: The Fighting Faith of Postwar Liberalism
Publisher: Routledge
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2004-09-27
List price: $32.95
In the midst of Eisenhower’s America, at the peak of the Cold War, a movement of public intellectuals defined a pragmatic liberal vision for America that is more relevant today than ever before. A sweeping intellectual history that will make us rethink postwar politics and culture, When America Was Great profiles the thinkers and writers who crafted a new American liberal tradition in a conservative era -- from historians Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and C. Vann Woodward, to economist John Kenneth Galbraith and theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. A compelling tale that will redefine the ...