Making sense of American liberalism / edited by Jonathan Bell and Timothy Stanley

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Partners for progress? Liberals and radicals in the long twentieth century / Doug Rossinow -- From popular front to liberalism: redefining the political in California in the post-World War II era / Jonathan Bell -- Going beyond the New Deal: socialists and the Democratic Party in the 1970s / Timothy Stanley -- From friends to foes: George McGovern, Hubert Humphrey, and the fracture in American liberalism / Bruce Miroff -- New York liberalism and the fight against homelessness / Ella Howard -- Liberalism in the postwar city: public and private power in urban renewal / Lizabeth Cohen -- Albert Gore Sr., liberalism and the south in the 1960s / Tony Badger -- Forgotten architects of the second Reconstruction: Republicans and civil rights, 1945-1972 / Timothy N. Thurber -- Liberal feminism and the reshaping of the New Deal order / Susan M. Hartmann -- Labor, liberalism, and the Democratic Party: a fruitful but vexed alliance / Nelson Lichtenstein