The Politics of Hope: And, The Bitter Heritage : American Liberalism in the 1960sPrinceton University Press, 2008 - 539 pagina's The Politics of Hope and The Bitter Heritage brings together two important books that bracket the tempestuous politics of 1960s America. In The Politics of Hope, which historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., published in 1963 while serving as a special assistant to President Kennedy, Schlesinger defines the liberalism that characterized the Kennedy administration and the optimistic early Sixties. In lively and incisive essays, most of them written between 1956 and 1960, on topics such as the basic differences underlying liberal and conservative politics, the writing of history, and the experience of Communist countries, Schlesinger emphasizes the liberal thinker's responsibility to abide by goals rather than dogma, to learn from history, and to look to the future. |
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Contents | 7 |
On Heroic Leadership 1960 | 13 |
The Decline of Greatness 1958 | 37 |
The Causes of the Civil War 1949 | 50 |
Probing the American Experience 1958 | 67 |
The Statistical Soldier 1949 | 74 |
A Note | 83 |
The Politics of Nostalgia 1955 | 94 |
Bernard DeVoto and Public Affairs 1960 | 195 |
Whittaker Chambers and His Witness | 229 |
The Oppenheimer Case 1954 | 245 |
The Highbrow in American Politics 1953 | 271 |
Time and the Intellectuals 1956 | 284 |
The Crisis of American Masculinity 1958 | 292 |
Notes on a National Cultural Policy 1960 | 312 |
Invasion of Europe Family Style 1957 | 358 |
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