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Liberalism : the life of an idea
- Title
- Liberalism : the life of an idea / Edmund Fawcett.
- Author
- Fawcett, Edmund.
- Publication
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 14-5020 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 468 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Liberalism dominates today's politics just as it decisively shaped the past two hundred years of American and European history. Yet there is striking disagreement about what liberalism really means and how it arose. In this engrossing history of liberalism--the first in English for many decades--veteran political observer Edmund Fawcett traces the ideals, successes, and failures of this central political tradition through the lives and ideas of a rich cast of European and American thinkers and politicians, from the early nineteenth century to today. Using a broad idea of liberalism, the book discusses celebrated thinkers from Constant and Mill to Berlin, Hayek, and Rawls, as well as more neglected figures. Its twentieth-century politicians include Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Willy Brandt, but also Hoover, Reagan, and Kohl. The story tracks political liberalism from its beginnings in the 1830s to its long, grudging compromise with democracy, through a golden age after 1945 to the present mood of challenge and doubt."--book jacket.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-5020
- ISBN
- 9780691156897 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0691156891 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013047376
- OCLC
- 861542577
- Author
- Fawcett, Edmund.
- Title
- Liberalism : the life of an idea / Edmund Fawcett.
- Publisher
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-5020