The once and future liberal : after identity politics / Mark Lilla.

In The Once and Future Liberal, Mark Lilla offers an impassioned, tough-minded, and stinging look at the failure of American liberalism over the past two generations. Although there have been Democrats in the White House, and some notable policy achievements, for nearly forty years the vision that R...

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Main Author: Lilla, Mark (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
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Physical Description:ix, 143 pages ; 20 cm
Format: Book

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