Making sense of American liberalism [electronic resource] / edited by Jonathan Bell and Timothy Stanley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Partners for progress: liberals and radicals in the long twentieth century / Doug Rossinow -- From popular front to liberalism: redefining the political in California in the post-World War II era / / Jonathan Bell -- Going beyond the New Deal: socialists and the democratic party in the 1970s / Timothy Stanley -- From friends to foes: George McGovern, Hubert Humphrey, and the fracture in American liberalism / Bruce Miroff -- New York liberalism and the fight against homelessness / Ella Howard -- Liberalism in the post-war city: public and private power in urban renewal / Lizabeth Cohen -- Albert Gore Sr.: liberalism and the South in the 1960s / Tony Badger -- Forgotten architects of the second reconstruction: Republicans and civil rights, 1945-1972 / Timothy N. Thurber -- Liberal feminism and the shaping of the New Deal order / Susan M. Hartmann -- Labor, liberalism, and the democratic party: a fruitful but vexed alliance / Nelson Lichtenstein.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.