Mastery and Drift

"How did the mastery of twentieth-century American liberalism drift away? What is American liberalism now? Here, an assortment of scholars try to make sense of recent American liberalism and how it's been articulated, weaponized, or wrecked in different contexts. The book aims to address the seemingly paradoxical place of liberalism in contemporary American life and historical scholarship, where liberalism can appear both politically wan and culturally dominant. In seeking to understand liberalism as it has been lived more than as it has been theorized, the contributors take on subjects as varied as health and welfare, race and immigration, economics, technocracy, and war"--