1st Edition
The Liberal Dilemma The Pragmatic Tradition in the Age of McCarthyism
By Jonathan Michaels
Copyright 2020
272 Pages
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Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume explores the response of liberals to rightwing attacks during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and early 1950s, establishing it as a defensive approach aimed at warding off efforts to conflate liberalism with communism, but not at striking back at the opposing ideology of conservatism itself. This book finds the combination of the liberal adherence to pragmatism and political pluralism... Read more
Introduction
1. Student v. Student: Two Episodes
2. War by Other Means
3. Homer G. Richey and the Political Power of a Symbol
4. Mapping the Liberal Mind: Paul Wilson Sullivan
Conclusion: Vital Center or Excluded Middle?
Biography
Jonathan Michaels teaches history at the University of Connecticut, Hartford Campus, and is the author of McCarthyism: The Realities, Delusions and Politics Behind the 1950s Red Scare.
