Author:
Siegel, Frederick F., 1945-2023.
Edition Statement:First American edition.
ImprintNew York : Encounter Books, 2013
Descriptionxii, 225 p. ; 24 cm
Note:Includes index.
Note:Introduction -- Progenitors : betrayal and the birth of modern liberalism -- Randolph Bourne writing novels about main street -- Giants in decline -- Trials -- The red decade -- The passing glory of the vital center -- How the highbrows killed culture and paved the path to the 1960s -- Not a new left but a new class -- From Jim Crow to Crow Jim -- McGovernized -- Progressives against progress : the rise of gentry liberalism -- The "philosophical crisis of American liberalism" -- The Clinton interregnum -- Gentry liberals and public sector unions to the fore -- "What are our convictions -- Obama versus main street -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix: John Stuart Mill and the clerisy.