{"product_id":"the-liberal-persuasion-arthur-schlesinger-jr-and-the-challenge-of-the-american-past-5213-princeton-legacy-library-5213-9780691654287","title":"The Liberal Persuasion Arthur Schlesinger Jr and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An interesting and provocative beginning point in understanding post-WW II U.S. liberalism.\"--Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Vital Historian3Ch. 1The Historian and the Public Realm19Ch. 2The Historian as Political Advisor43Ch. 3The Historian and the Cycles of History54Ch. 4The Lessons of an Historian62Ch. 5Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: Tory Democrat67Ch. 6The Age of Jackson and Its Impact75Ch. 7Jacksonian Abolitionist: The Conversion of William Leggett84Ch. 8Race, Sex, and the Dimensions of Liberty in Antebellum America107Ch. 9The Two World Wars and the Idea of the State127Ch. 10Women, Politics, Philanthropy: Some Historical Origins of the Welfare State142Ch. 11The New Left, the New Right, and the New Deal151Ch. 12\"Malaise\" Revisited: Jimmy Carter and the Crisis of Confidence164Ch. 13Historical Analogies and Public Policy: The Black and Immigrant Experience in Urban America185Ch. 14Woodrow Wilson and the Cold War199Ch. 15America after the Cold War: Global Order, Democracy, and Domestic Consent214Ch. 16Christopher Lasch's Quarrel with Liberalism233Ch. 17Black Studies as Academic Discipline and Political Struggle251Ch. 18William James and the Strenuous Responsibility of the Liberal Intellectual263Ch. 19Henry Steele Commager's Activist History277Ch. 20Edmund Wilson at Oxford301Selected Bibliography of Works by Schlesinger311Contributors313Acknowledgments315Index317","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403995849047,"sku":"9780691654287","price":104.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-liberal-persuasion-arthur-schlesinger-jr-and-the-challenge-of-the-american-past-5213-princeton-legacy-library-5213-9780691654287","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}