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Article: A Wolfe Tome.(The Future of Liberalism)(Book review)

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The Future of Liberalism, by Alan Wolfe (Knopf, 352 pp., $25.95)

ALAN WOLFE of Boston College is a prolific and generally well-regarded author. In the last five years he's published four books on contemporary politics and public policy: The Transformation of American Religion, Does American Democracy Still Work?, Return to Greatness, and Is There a Culture War? His new book, The Future of Liberalism, timed to coincide with the arrival of the Obama administration, tries to provide an in-depth intellectual framework for Wolfe's mildly unconventional liberal political predilections. "No one is more temperamentally conservative," he says, "than a Manhattan leftist ...

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