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

"How did the mastery of twentieth-century American liberalism drift away? What is American liberalism now? Here, an assortment of scholars try to make sense of recent American liberalism and how it's been articulated, weaponized, or wrecked in different contexts. The book aims to address the seemingly paradoxical place of liberalism in contemporary American life and historical scholarship, where liberalism can appear both politically wan and culturally dominant. In seeking to understand liberalism as it has been lived more than as it has been theorized, the contributors take on subjects as varied as health and welfare, race and immigration, economics, technocracy, and war"--

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Brent Geismer Cebul
• Assisted by: Brent Cebul (Editor), Lily Geismer (Editor), Geismer Lily (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2025
• EAN: 9780226838113
• ISBN: 978-0-226-83811-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Political parties and party platforms, Centrist democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies