This book is an interpretation of our recent political past. It
offers an explanation of the rise and decline of postwar
liberalism, a creed that was vitally concerned with civil rights.
Partly because of such special concern, liberalism inspired in many
a daring vision of social justice and, by the end of the 1960s,
inspired in many more a reaction of loathing and contempt. To
explain the rise of this ideology, John Frederick Martin has drawn
from numerous archives and interviews and assessed the
contributions of Truman, Stevenson, Kefauver, Harriman, Kennedy,
and Johnson. To explain its decline, he has analyzed the reaction
to the liberals' government-the sentiments aroused by busing,
affirmative action, Model Cities, and the militance of blacks,
Democrats, and white ethnics. Though varying in their intent, these
responses shared a dislike of the liberals' treatment of minorities
and a dread of government power-a dread made stronger by the
antiwar movement and the Watergate scandal-and thereby discredited
the very ends and means of the liberal program. By the early 1970s,
Martin argues, it was no surprise that a politics of
consumerism-pivoting on the rights of the average citizen, not of
the deprived citizen, and eschewing government power-had replaced
the liberal ideology. Placing this narrative in a larger context,
Martin explains the importance of the race issue in previous
liberal movements and composes an interpretation of the whole of
American liberalism as well as of its latest stage and the
Democrats' recent ordeal.
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