Blood of the Liberals
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.98 (661 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374527784 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Packer's combination of personal and historical perspectives, as well as his considerable skill at conveying them, make this work both challenging and enjoyable. The author attempts to demonstrate the ongoing relevance to today's world of a political philosophy that many believe has little future. Piehl, Minnesota State Univ., Mankato Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. Packer also tells of his father, Herbert, whose Jewish American background placed him squarely in the urban liberal tradition of the mid-20th century. From Library Journal Packer has produced a fascinating personal history while examining why people become liberals even though their efforts frequently seem extremely futi
Searching, engrossing, and persuasive, this is an original, intimate examination of the meaning of politics in American lives.. Packer's father was a Kennedy-era liberal, a law professor and dean at Stanford whose convictions were sorely--and ultimately fatally--tested in the campus upheavals of the 1960s. An acclaimed journalist and novelist explores the legacy and future of American liberalism through the history of his family's politically active historyGeorge Packer's maternal grandfather, George Huddleston, was a populist congressman from Alabama in the early part of the century--an agrarian liberal in the Jacksonian mold who opposed the New Deal. The inheritor of two sometimes conflicting strains of the great American liberal tradition, Packer discusses the testing of ideals in the lives of his father and grandfather and his own struggle to un
Martha Anne Dorminy said Five Stars. A 5 star book, elegantlyand clearly written.. A voice in the wilderness How did such a basic, rational notion as liberalism turn into the favorite epithet of talk-show hosts? What happened to social justice? Where is the freewheeling spirit of the Sixties? These, and other questions, have haunted me for years. Not being well versed in American history, the seemingly abrupt annhiliation of everything "liberal" has caused me great puzzlement and distress.Packer, in a beautiful amalgam of memoir and history, has written a book that has almost singlehandedly. If you want to understand why liberals lose elections, read Packer Blood of the Liberals is a near-perfect blend of the personal and the political. Packer's grandfather was George Huddleston, a Congressman from Birmingham, Alabama who represents for Packer a lot of the contradictions in modern liberalism: desegregation versus states' rights, support for the common man against bigness (whether corporate, governmental, or otherwise), and at the same time a belief that government is sometimes necessary.Packer's father, by contrast, was a pointy-headed