![]() ![]() ![]() Mencken-was to create an American version of the aristocracy long associated with European statism.Critical of mass democracy and middle-class capitalism, liberals despised the businessman’s pursuit of profit as well as the conventional individual’s pursuit of pleasure and in the 1950s liberalism expressed itself in the scornful critique of popular culture. The aim of liberalism’s founders-such as Herbert Croly, Randolph Bourne, H.G. ![]() In the 1920s, the first thinkers to call themselves liberals adopted the hostility to bourgeois life that had long characterized European intellectuals of both the left and right. It shows that what we think of as liberalism-the top-and-bottom coalition we associate with President Obama-began not with Progressivism or the New Deal but rather in the wake of WWI, in disillusionment with American society. ![]() This short book rewrites the history of modern American liberalism. ![]()
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