The Achievement of American Liberalism: The New Deal and Its Legacies

Book Overview

The New Deal established the contours and character of modern American democracy. It created an anchor and a reference point for American liberal politics through the struggles for racial, gender, and economic equality in the five decades that followed it. Indeed, the ways that liberalism has changed in meaning since the New Deal provide a critical prism through which to understand twentieth-century politics. From the consensus liberalism of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231112130
• ISBN13: 9780231112130
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"