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April 11, 2019

Land of Tomorrow: Postwar Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism

McIntyre Amy

By Benjamin Mangrum. Oxford University Press. 2018.

American liberalism after the Second World War turned against the legacies of the New Deal era. Rather than extending the reforms of the 1930s, many expressions of postwar liberal thought recast organizational politics as enfeebling, alienating, or tyrannical. Land of Tomorrow examines the ideas and cultural sensibilities that caused this radical shift in the tenor of American liberalism.

To account for these changes in American liberal sentiment, Benjamin Mangrum looks to some of the most influential writers, ...