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The Return of the "L" Word. A Liberal Vision for the New Century.
Douglas S. Massey
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Description for The Return of the "L" Word. A Liberal Vision for the New Century.
Argues that somewhere in the 1970s liberals in the United States lost their way. This book draws on the insights from the field of economic sociology, and then sets forth a set of liberal principles to explain how markets work in society, principles he applies to articulate salable liberal policies. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JPFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 457.
Somewhere in the 1970s liberals in the United States lost their way. After successes like the New Deal, they became arrogant. So argues Douglas Massey in Return of the "L" Word. Faced with the difficult politics of race and class, liberals used the heavy hand of government to impose policies on a resentful public. Conservatives capitalized on this with a staunch ideology of free markets, limited government, and conservative social values. The time is ripe for a liberal realignment, declares Massey, but what has been lacking is a consistent liberal ideology that explains to voters, in simple terms, government's vital ... Read more
Somewhere in the 1970s liberals in the United States lost their way. After successes like the New Deal, they became arrogant. So argues Douglas Massey in Return of the "L" Word. Faced with the difficult politics of race and class, liberals used the heavy hand of government to impose policies on a resentful public. Conservatives capitalized on this with a staunch ideology of free markets, limited government, and conservative social values. The time is ripe for a liberal realignment, declares Massey, but what has been lacking is a consistent liberal ideology that explains to voters, in simple terms, government's vital ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691123035
SKU
V9780691123035
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About Douglas S. Massey
Douglas S. Massey is Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of "The Source of the River" (Princeton) and "American Apartheid". He is Past President of the American Sociological Association.
Reviews for The Return of the "L" Word. A Liberal Vision for the New Century.
"A brisk and crisply written manifesto, this book is a liberal call to arms
or at least to arguments."
Michael P. Lynch, The Chronicle of Higher Education "[Massey] considers why liberalism has declined and offers a novel repackaging of its values in the hopes of rekindling a coherent liberal response to the dominant conservative ideology."
Library Journal
or at least to arguments."
Michael P. Lynch, The Chronicle of Higher Education "[Massey] considers why liberalism has declined and offers a novel repackaging of its values in the hopes of rekindling a coherent liberal response to the dominant conservative ideology."
Library Journal