Blood of the Liberals (Paperback)

An acclaimed journalist and novelist explores the legacy and future of American liberalism through the history of his family's politically active history

George Packer's maternal grandfather, George Huddleston, was a populist congressman from Alabama in the early part of the century--an agrarian liberal in the Jacksonian mold who opposed the New Deal. Packer's father was a Kennedy-era liberal, a law professor and dean at Stanford whose convictions were sorely--and ultimately fatally--tested in the campus upheavals of the 1960s. The inheritor of two sometimes conflicting strains of the great American liberal tradition, Packer discusses the testing of ideals in the lives of his father and grandfather and his own struggle to understand the place of the progressive tradition in our currently polarized political climate. Searching, engrossing, and persuasive, this is an original, intimate examination of the meaning of politics in American lives.

General

Imprint:	Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2001
First published:	August 2001
Authors:	George Packer
Dimensions:	208 x 140 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	416
ISBN-13:	978-0-374-52778-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	0-374-52778-4
Barcode:	9780374527785

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