The Liberal Persuasion : Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and the Challenge of the American Past / John Patrick Diggins.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. The Vital Historian / Diggins, John Patrick / Lind, Michael -- Part One: History as a Vocation -- 1. The Historian and the Public Realm / Leuchthnburg, William E. -- 2. The Historian as Political Advisor / Thomas, Hugh -- 3. The Historian and the Cycles of History / Kennan, George F. -- 4. The Lessons of an Historian / Galbraith, John Kenneth -- 5. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: Tory Democrat / Blum, John Morton -- Part Two: The Era of Andrew Jackson -- 6. The Age of Jackson and its Impact / Remini, Robert -- 7. Jacksonian Abolitionist: The Conversion of William Leggett / Wilentz, Sean -- 8. Race, Sex, and the Dimensions of Liberty in Antebellum America / Matthews, Jean V. -- Part Three: Modern Liberalism and the Challenge of Governance -- 9. The Two World Wars and the Idea of the State / Brinkley, Alan -- 10. Women, Politics, Philanthropy: Some Historical Origins of the Welfare State / McCarthy, Kathleen D. -- 11. The New Left, the New Right, and the New Deal / Siegel, Fred -- 12."Malaise" Revisited: Jimmy Carter and the Crisis of Confidence / Ribuffo, Leo P. -- 13. Historical Analogies and Public Policy: The Black and Immigrant Experience in Urban America / Wade, Richard C. -- Part Four: America and the World -- 14. Woodrow Wilson and the Cold War / Unterberger, Betty Miller -- 15. America after the Cold War: Global Order, Democracy, and Domestic Consent / Steel, Ronald -- Part Five: Ideological Controversies -- 16. Christopher Lasch's Quarrel with Liberalism / Menand, Louis -- 17. Black Studies as Academic Discipline and Political Struggle / Genovese, Eugene D. -- Part Six: Intellectual Heroes -- 18. William James and the Strenuous Responsibility of the Liberal Intellectual / Cotkin, George -- 19. Henry Steele Commager's Activist History / Jumonville, Neil -- 20. Edmund Wilson at Oxford / Berlin, Isaiah -- Selected Bibliography of Works by Schlesinger -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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