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The Strange Death of Liberal America (Hardcover)
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Ralph Brauer defines Liberal America as a place where government
exists to keep the playing field level. The success of the American
experiment, he argues, depends on how well we maintain this equity
and its four cornerstones: economic justice, educational equity,
voting rights, and media fairness. His book is both a political and
intellectual history examining the various threats to these
cornerstones, and a social and cultural chronicle. Touching on
music, television, movies, and sports, Brauer's thesis is
underscored by a historical discussion that begins with the New
Deal and works its way to the present, ending with Global Warming
and the Iraq War. Arguing that the patient is in intensive care,
Brauer identifies three reasons for the decline of the level
playing field: 1) a Republican counterrevolution dedicated to
rolling back the values of the New Deal, 2) an inability of both
parties to answer questions raised by decades of Civil Rights
revolutions, and 3) the transformation of suburban America from a
place of opportunity created by government programs to a
battleground. These three ideas form the basis for the book's three
sections. Part One follows the development of the
Counterrevolutionary Coalition, beginning with the Southern
Strategy and ending with a chapter on America's politicized media.
Part Two focuses on questions that have been raised by people of
color and by women, and treats the Democratic Party's failure to
answer those questions as illustrated by events like the
Nader-LaDuke campaign and the 1964 Atlantic City convention. Part
Three details the impact of suburban America on the cornerstones.
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