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Article: Liberalism and its challengers: FDR to Reagan.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- July 26, 1985
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AT FIRST GLANCE a book about liberalism since Franklin Roosevelt, written by a liberal, would seem unlikely to be appetizing fare for readers of NR. On closer inspection, it appears even less so. The work is largely derivative, a synthesis of secondary accounts organized around a succession of presidential Administrations, with a chapter of Martin Luther King Jr. thrown in for color. Such a format is as inherently soporific as a textbook.
As one wades through it, however, one gradually realizes that this is an important book--not for the light it sheds upon the political history of the United States during the past five decades, but as a comment upon the ...