{"product_id":"making-sense-of-american-liberalism-9780252036866","title":"Making Sense of American Liberalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTakes the pulse of the left in contemporary US politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title, 2013.  \"With the proliferation of scholarly monographs on the conservative movement, this volume's serious engagement with US liberalism is surprisingly refreshing.  Highly Recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A compelling narrative of the shifting dynamics of ideas and policy on the left end of the political spectrum.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An exciting collection of ten essays exploring liberalism and the New Deal coalition in the twentieth century. . . . a wonderful preview of some interesting new scholarship.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This impressive collection of thoughtful essays pulls together an all-star roster of prominent historians and promising younger scholars to make an important contribution to our understanding of postwar liberalism.\" --Steven M. Gillon, resident historian for The History Channel and author of The Kennedy Assassination--24 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson's Pivotal First Day as President\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMaking Sense of American Liberalism\u003c\/i\u003e promises to alter the way we look at liberalism and the Democratic Party. Disagreeing with contentions that conservatives enjoy a natural electoral majority, editors Jonathan Bell and Timothy Stanley use the essays in this volume to show that American history is neither seamlessly conservative nor liberal but rather an ongoing battle between these two competing visions. The collection will prompt scholars to reconsider the history of postwar politics.\"--Peter B. Levy, author of \u003ci\u003eThe New Left and Labor in the 1960s\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors are Anthony J. Badger, Jonathan Bell, Lizabeth Cohen, Susan Hartmann, Ella Howard, Bruce Miroff, Nelson Lichtenstein, Doug Rossinow, Timothy Stanley, and Timothy Thurber","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577260446039,"sku":"9780252036866","price":77.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252036866.jpg?v=1746094583","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-sense-of-american-liberalism-9780252036866","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}