The Collapse of Liberalism: Why America Needs a New Left (Polemics)

By Charles Noble

Book Overview

In The Collapse of Liberalism, noted political scientist Charles Noble shows how the American political system frustrates progressive reform while taking liberalism to task for not being radical enough-for what he sees as a long history of accommodating the very same political institutions and corporate interests that it has wanted to challenge. As a result, Noble argues, liberals have been unable to solve the problems of class, race and gender inequality that bedevil the United States. In short, American liberalism suffers not only at the hands of conservatives, but also from its own failures of vision, will, and political strategy. Beyond a critique, Noble offers a breath-taking new progressive strategy for rebuilding America.

Clear and thought-provoking, The Collapse of Liberalism is a politically engaged interrogation of the way American liberals think about politics and social reform.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742527573
• ISBN13: 9780742527577
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.9" x 0.5" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Liberal Phoenix?

As social commentators struggle to reinvent the wheel, one might forget that the ultimate and primordial diagnosis of the ills of liberalism came into being quite some time ago (from an unmentionable source, constantly plagiarized). As the left is discredited, all their predictions seem to come true and this critique/review of the conservative nosedive since the seventies has a clearer take on the events than much of the liberal commentary, too close to its leveraged issues to maintain clarity. Without the usual leftist shibboleths, this version of 'leftis lite' moves pst cross-eyed 'tactics liberalisms' floundering in the tide of engineered reaction now flooding the civil space.