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- Title: From Progressive to Liberal Internationalism: Congressional Liberals and the Making of a Postwar Consensus
- Author : American Diplomacy
- Release Date : January 14, 2008
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 118 KB
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Editor's Note: The author, who earned his doctorate in history at Ohio University in 2006, discusses here in some detail the development of liberalism in U.S. foreign policy in the decades following the Progressive Era. He sheds light on the changing twentieth century American scene and the outlook of national leaders in mid-century. This well-documented study provides an informative overview of the topic, including especially illuminating details on the influential roles of two leading members of Congress, Helen Gahagan Douglas and Carl Albert. --Contrib. Ed. After five years of war in Iraq, seven years since 9/11, nearly two full terms of George W. Bush, and two decades since the Berlin Wall's collapse, American liberals are still searching for a viable foreign policy. For many Democrats, the combination of George Bush's Wilsonian rhetoric and pro-war liberal hawks that supported the war discredited liberal internationalism. (1) Cast adrift, some on the political left have gravitated toward Realism while others wait for a Democratic president to chart the way forward. (2)