The American Liberal Tradition Reconsidered: The Contested Legacy of Louis Hartz

by Mark Hulliung

Once upon a time in America, Herbert Hoover accused Franklin D. Roosevelt of usurping the coveted label "liberal." Nowadays, Republicans have so successfully stigmatized the word that even Democrats run from it. But in 1955, Louis Hartz offered perhaps the most famous interpretation of American history of the second half of the twentieth century in his book The Liberal Tradition in America, to which students of American political culture have found...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700617086
• ISBN13: 9780700617081
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"