Making Liberalism New : American Intellectuals, Modern Literature, and the Rewriting of a Political Tradition.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
What We Talk About When We Talk About Liberalism
Modern Literature and Liberal Politics
The Discursive Origins of American Liberalism
Making Liberalism New
I A Liberal Modernism
1. Liberalism Incorporated: Intellectuals, Abortion, and the Critique of Possessive Individualism
Tess Slesinger's Intellectuals and the Problems of Possession
Wombs or Women?
Modernism's Party Politics
After the Party
2. Racial Liberalism: Native Son and the Problem of "Color-Blind" Law
Social Psychology and the American Dilemma
Color-Blind Justice
Individualism and Reactionary Color Blindness
Things Not Seen
II A Modern Liberalism
3. The Inward Turn: Tragedy, Documentary, and the Making of the Postwar Liberal Imagination
Let Us Not Praise Liberal Documentary
Lionel Trilling and the Tragic Liberal Imagination
Taking Tragedy to the White House
Arthur Miller and the Ends of Tragedy
4. Ending in Style: JFK, Nabokov, and the Apotheosis of a Liberal Aesthetic
Totalitarianism and the Democratic Character
Intellectual Style in an Age of Abundance
Lolita and the Liberal Ironist
"Liberal Totalitarianism" and the Problem of the Presidency
Conclusion: What's Left of Liberalism? (or What's So New about Neoliberalism?)
Notes
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