The Liberal Persuasion ：Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and the Challenge of the American Past ( Princeton Legacy Library )

Publication subTitle ：Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and the Challenge of the American Past

Publication series ：Princeton Legacy Library

Author： Diggins John Patrick  

Publisher： Princeton University Press‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9781400887491

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691048291

Subject： K7 Americas History

Keyword： 美洲史

Language： ENG

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For more than half a century, the celebrated historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., has been the guiding force of American liberalism, both intellectually and in practice. The author of many critically acclaimed books, Schlesinger vigorously defended FDR's New Deal policies in his earliest writings and later served as a close advisor to President John F. Kennedy. In this volume, twenty of today's most eminent historians join forces to explore Schlesinger's unique brand of liberalism--one that has steered clear of ideological extremism and social fragmentation, favoring instead pluralism and the pragmatic use of state power. By engaging the reader in various aspects of his career and intellectual pursuits, these essays offer an exhilarating journey through American political history, from the Jackson era to multiculturalism, while demonstrating historical writing at its best. The volume opens with essays on Schlesinger as a historian and a political participant, contributed by William E. Leuchtenburg, Hugh Thomas, George Kennan, John Kenneth Galbraith, and John Morton Blum. The influence of the Jackson era is explored by Robert Remini, Sean Wilentz, and Jean V. Matthews. In a section on modern liberalism and governance, such topics as the New Deal, the Great Society, and the fate of liberalism under the Carter administration are discussed by Alan Brinkley, Kathleen D. McCarthy, Fred Siegel, Leo P. Ribuffo, and Richard C. Wade. Betty Miller Unterberger and Ronald Steel comment on

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Introduction

The Vital Historian by John Patrick Diggins and Michael Lind

Part 1: History as a Vocation

1 The Historian and the Public Realm by William E. Leuchtenburg

2 The Historian as Political Advisor by Hugh Thomas

3 The Historian and the Cycles of History by George F. Kennan

4 The Lessons of an Historian by John Kenneth Galbraith

5 Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: Tory Democrat by John Morton Blum

Part 2: The Era of Andrew Jackson

6 The Age of Jackson and Its Impact by Robert Remini

7 Jacksonian Abolitionist: The Conversion of William Leggett by Sean Wilentz

8 Race, Sex, and the Dimensions of Liberty in Antebellum America by Jean V. Matthews

Part 3: Modern Liberalism and the Challenge of Governance

9 The Two World Wars and the Idea of the State by Alan Brinkley

10 Women, Politics, Philanthropy: Some Historical Origins of the Welfare State by Kathleen D. McCarthy

11 The New Left, the New Right, and the New Deal by Fred Siegel

12 "Malaise" Revisited: Jimmy Carter and the Crisis of Confidence by Leo P. Ribuffo

13 Historical Analogies and Public Policy: The Black and Immigrant Experience in Urban America by Richard C. Wade

Part 4: America and the World

14 Woodrow Wilson and the Cold War by Betty Miller Unterberger

15 America after the Cold War: Global Order, Democracy and Domestic Consent by Ronald Steel

Part 5: Ideological Controversies

16 Christopher Lasch's Quarrel with Liberalism by Louis Menand

17 Black Studies as Academic Discipline and Political Struggle by Eugene D. Genovese

Part 6: Intellectual Heroes

18 William James and the Strenuous Responsibility of the Liberal Intellectual by George Cotkin

19 Henry Steele Commager's Activist History by Neil Jumonville

20 Edmund Wilson at Oxford by Isaiah Berlin

Selected Bibliography of Works by Schlesinger

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Index

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