Liberal Dilemma - The Pragmatic Tradition in the Age of Mccarthyism

List of contents

Introduction 1. Student v. Student: Two Episodes 2. War by Other Means 3. Homer G. Richey and the Political Power of a Symbol 4. Mapping the Liberal Mind: Paul Wilson Sullivan Conclusion: Vital Center or Excluded Middle?

About the author

Jonathan Michaels teaches history at the University of Connecticut, Hartford Campus, and is the author of McCarthyism: The Realities, Delusions and Politics Behind the 1950s Red Scare.

Summary

This study of the liberal response to McCarthyism is the first book to analyze the negative political consequences of the liberal embrace of pragmatism and disdain for ideology in their contest with 1950s conservatives.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Michaels, Jonathan (University of Connecticut Michaels, Michaels Jonathan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367313425
• ISBN: 978-0-367-31342-5
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Routledge Advances in American History; Routledge Advances in American History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; History, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Historiography, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Historiography, Archaeology, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, History and Archaeology, The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General