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Mastery and Drift: Professional-Class Liberals Since the 1960s

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Availability:In StockContributor:Brent Cebul (Editor), Lily Geismer (Editor)Publish date:02/11/25Pages:416
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226838137ISBN-10:226838137UPC:9780226838137Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Political Ideologies, Political ProcessBook Topic:20th Century, Conservatism & Liberalism, Political PartiesSize:8.98 x 5.98 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCHJSR8SN8
A revelatory look at modern liberalism's historical evolution and enduring impact on contemporary politics and society.

Since the 1960s, American liberalism and the Democratic Party have been remade along professional class lines, widening liberalism's impact but narrowing its social and political vision. In Mastery and Drift, historians Brent Cebul and Lily Geismer have assembled a group of scholars to address the formation of "professional-class liberalism" and its central role in remaking electoral politics and the practice of governance. Across subjects as varied as philanthropy, consulting, health care, welfare, race, immigration, economics, and foreign conflicts, the authors examine not only the gaps between liberals' egalitarian aspirations and their approaches to policymaking but also how the intricacies of contemporary governance have tended to bolster professional-class liberals' power.

The contributors to Mastery and Drift all came of age amid the development of professional-class liberalism, giving them distinctive and important perspectives in understanding its internal limitations and its relationship to neoliberalism and the Right. With never-ending disputes over the meaning of liberalism, the content of its governance, and its relationship to a resurgent Left, now is the time to consider modern liberalism's place in contemporary American life.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226838137ISBN-10:226838137UPC:9780226838137Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Political Ideologies, Political ProcessBook Topic:20th Century, Conservatism & Liberalism, Political PartiesSize:8.98 x 5.98 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCHJSR8SN8
Brent Cebul is associate professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century and the coeditor of Shaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century. With Geraldo Cadava, N. D. B Connolly, and Lily Geismer, he is a coeditor of the new political history series America Reframed, published by the University of Chicago Press. Lily Geismer is professor of history at Claremont McKenna College and the author of Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality and Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party, as well as the coeditor of Shaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century. With Geraldo Cadava, Brent Cebul, and N. D. B Connolly, she is coeditor of the new political history series America Reframed, published by the University of Chicago Press.

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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