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Harold Laski and American liberalism

Title: Harold Laski and American liberalism / Gary Dean Best.
Author: Best, Gary Dean.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2005], ©2005.

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x, 213 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"For nearly three decades, the English political scientist Harold Laski was the gray eminence of American liberalism and its most influential Marxist public intellectual. As a fervent proponent of the New Deal in the 1930s, much of Laski's success stemmed from the fact that he offered answers when so many Americans had only questions. By the postwar years, however, his reputation was in decline and his influence left the Democratic Party vulnerable in the 1948 elections. In Harold Laski and American Liberalism Gary Dean Best traces the trajectory of Laski's American career and accounts for its ultimate failure." "This book will be of interest to intellectual historians, political scientists, and American studies specialists."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-209) and index.

Contents

1. American years -- 2. To the New Deal -- 3. The New Deal begins -- 4. The second New Deal -- 5. The American presidency -- 6. The road to war -- 7. Peace and Cold War -- 8. The American democracy -- 9. Final frustrations.

ISBN

076580266X (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004059862

OCLC

ocm56655714
SCSB-5142285

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Columbia University Libraries