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The Strange Death of American Liberalism
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W. Brands' 'The Strange Death of American Liberalism' offers a compact interpretation of how mid-20th-century liberalism in the United States lost momentum by the late 20th century.
Brands ties the rise and endurance of expansive government programs to international pressures like the Cold War, arguing that their decline followed the diminished external threat and changing economic conditions.
The book contends that without such driving forces, the political appetite for large-scale government intervention diminished, reshaping American political possibilities.
Brands suggests that subsequent policy shifts and partisan realignments flowed from this transformation.
The work serves as a provocative synthesis about liberalism's trajectory and the structural causes of its retrenchment.
W. Brands' 'The Strange Death of American Liberalism' offers a compact interpretation of how mid-20th-century liberalism in the United States lost momentum by the late 20th century.
Brands ties the rise and endurance of expansive government programs to international pressures like the Cold War, arguing that their decline followed the diminished external threat and changing economic conditions.
The book contends that without such driving forces, the political appetite for large-scale government intervention diminished, reshaping American political possibilities.
Brands suggests that subsequent policy shifts and partisan realignments flowed from this transformation.
The work serves as a provocative synthesis about liberalism's trajectory and the structural causes of its retrenchment.
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