Alan Brinkley is Professor of History at Columbia University. His many books include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, winner of the American Book Award for History, and The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War.

With brilliant economy, Alan Brinkley uses these collected essays to explore where liberalism failed: why Franklin D. Roosevelt condoned racial segregation, why cold-war internationalists gladly rebuilt Europe while ignoring the third world, why the New Left, Old Left and organized labor shunned one another...In his willingness to hear...different voices, Brinkley admirably carries on the liberal tradition.

• * Preface * The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt * The New Deal Experiments * The Late New Deal and the Idea of the State * The New Deal and Southern Politics * The Two World Wars and American Liberalism * Legacies of World War II * Historians and the Interwar Years * Hofstadter's The Age of Reform Reconsidered * Robert Penn Warren, Tarry Williams, and Huey Long * Icons of the American Establishment * The Posthumous Lives of John F. Kennedy * Therapeutic Radicalism of the New Left * Allard Lowenstein and the Ordeal of Liberalism * The Taming of the Political Convention * The Passions of Oral Roberts * The Problem of American Conservatism * Historians and Their Publics * Notes * Sources * Index

Alan Brinkley is Professor of History at Columbia University. His many books include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, winner of the American Book Award for History, and The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War.

With brilliant economy, Alan Brinkley uses these collected essays to explore where liberalism failed: why Franklin D. Roosevelt condoned racial segregation, why cold-war internationalists gladly rebuilt Europe while ignoring the third world, why the New Left, Old Left and organized labor shunned one another...In his willingness to hear...different voices, Brinkley admirably carries on the liberal tradition.

• * Preface * The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt * The New Deal Experiments * The Late New Deal and the Idea of the State * The New Deal and Southern Politics * The Two World Wars and American Liberalism * Legacies of World War II * Historians and the Interwar Years * Hofstadter's The Age of Reform Reconsidered * Robert Penn Warren, Tarry Williams, and Huey Long * Icons of the American Establishment * The Posthumous Lives of John F. Kennedy * Therapeutic Radicalism of the New Left * Allard Lowenstein and the Ordeal of Liberalism * The Taming of the Political Convention * The Passions of Oral Roberts * The Problem of American Conservatism * Historians and Their Publics * Notes * Sources * Index

Alan Brinkley is Professor of History at Columbia University. His many books include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, winner of the American Book Award for History, and The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War.

With brilliant economy, Alan Brinkley uses these collected essays to explore where liberalism failed: why Franklin D. Roosevelt condoned racial segregation, why cold-war internationalists gladly rebuilt Europe while ignoring the third world, why the New Left, Old Left and organized labor shunned one another...In his willingness to hear...different voices, Brinkley admirably carries on the liberal tradition.

• * Preface * The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt * The New Deal Experiments * The Late New Deal and the Idea of the State * The New Deal and Southern Politics * The Two World Wars and American Liberalism * Legacies of World War II * Historians and the Interwar Years * Hofstadter's The Age of Reform Reconsidered * Robert Penn Warren, Tarry Williams, and Huey Long * Icons of the American Establishment * The Posthumous Lives of John F. Kennedy * Therapeutic Radicalism of the New Left * Allard Lowenstein and the Ordeal of Liberalism * The Taming of the Political Convention * The Passions of Oral Roberts * The Problem of American Conservatism * Historians and Their Publics * Notes * Sources * Index