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Overview"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 success, and the country placed on a more libertarian-corporatist trajectory, both economically and culturally. In economics, attempts to reorient industry from private profit to public use were halted, and free enterprise was reaffirmed. In politics, the ideal of governance by a strong, independent executive was rejected--along with notions of ""central planning,"" ""social control,"" and state imposition of ""values""--and a politics of contending interest groups was embraced. In law, the encounter with totalitarianism brought an end to judicial deference, the embrace of civil rights and civil liberties, and the neutralist reinterpretation, and radicalization, of both. Finally, in culture, the encounter sowed the seeds of our own era--the era of the culture wars--in which traditional America has been mobilized against these liberal legal advances, and against the entire neutralist, ""relativist,"" ""secular humanist"" reinterpretation of America that accompanies them." Full Product DetailsAuthor: David CiepleyPublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: Harvard University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.703kg ISBN: 9780674022966ISBN 10: 0674022963 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 01 January 2007 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsOffers a thoughtful engagement and sketches out some interesting relationships between evolving liberal ideas and policy.--Judy Kutulas Journal of American History (09/01/2007) Offers a thoughtful engagement and sketches out some interesting relationships between evolving liberal ideas and policy. -- Judy Kutulas Journal of American History 20070901 Offers a thoughtful engagement and sketches out some interesting relationships between evolving liberal ideas and policy. -- Judy Kutulas Journal of American History (09/01/2007) Author InformationDavid Ciepley is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Denver. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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