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Informationen zum Autor Nancy L. Cohen is a historian and the author of four books, including Breakthrough: The Making of America's First Woman President and Delirium: The Politics of Sex in America . Her articles and commentary have been published in the Washington Post , the Los Angeles Times , and the Guardian , among many others, and she has appeared on MSNBC, NPR, and many other broadcasts. She speaks frequently at conferences, universities, and book festivals across the nation. Currently, Cohen works as a consultant to political officials and nonprofits on gender policy and women's leadership. She previously spent more than ten years in research and teaching positions at UCLA, Occidental College, and other universities. She lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext Tracing the transformation of liberal political ideology from the end of the Civil War to the early twentieth century, Nancy Cohen offers a new interpretation of the origins and character of modern liberalism. She argues that the values and programs associated with modern liberalism were formulated not during the Progressive Era, as most accounts maintain, but earlier, in the very different social context of the Gilded Age.Integrating intellectual, social, cultural, and economic history, Cohen argues that the reconstruction of liberalism hinged on the reaction of postbellum liberals to social and labor unrest. As new social movements of workers and farmers arose and phrased their protests in the rhetoric of democratic producerism, liberals retreated from earlier commitments to an expansive vision of democracy. Redefining liberal ideas about citizenship and the state, says Cohen, they played a critical role in legitimating emergent corporate capitalism and politically insulating it from democratic challenge.As the social cost of economic globalization comes under international critical scrutiny, this book revisits the bitter struggles over the relationship between capitalism and democracy in post-Civil War America. The resolution of this problem offered by the new liberalism deeply influenced the progressives and has left an enduring legacy for twentieth-century American politics, Cohen argues....
