Liberalism in the shadow of totalitarianism
David Ciepley · 2007
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"This book argues that, more than any other factor, it was the encounter with totalitarianism that dissolved the ideals of American progressivism and crystallized the ideals of postwar liberalism. The New Deal began as a revolution in favor of progressive governance - executive-centered and expert-guided. But as David Ciepley shows, by the late 1930s, intellectuals and elites, reacting against the menace of totalitarianism, began to shrink from using state power to guide the economy or foster citizen virtues. All of the more statist governance projects of the New Deal were curtailed or abandoned, regardless of their success, and the country was placed on a more libertarian-corporatist trajectory, both economically and culturally."--BOOK JACKET
Book details
- Year
- 2007
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Editions
- 3
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN
- 9780674022966
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