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Exploration of America’s evolving liberal lineage.

If you're drawn to understanding the shifts in American political tides through personal narratives, "Blood of the Liberals" is a resonant read. Packer weaves history with his family's story, offering a candid examination of liberalism’s triumphs and crises that could resonate deeply with anyone interested in the interplay between personal and political legacies.

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Blood of the Liberals

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ISBN: 9780374527785
Authors: George Packer
Date of Publication: 2001-08-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Politics, History, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Memoir, History, Biography, Politics
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An acclaimed journalist and novelist explores the legacy and future of American liberalism through the history of his family's politically active historyGeorge Packer's maternal grandfather, George Huddleston, was a populist congressman from Alabama in the early part of the century―an agrarian liberal in the Jacksonian mold who opposed the New Deal. Packer's father was a Kennedy-era liberal, a law professor and dean at Stanford whose convictions were sorely―and ultimately fatally―tested in the campus upheavals of the 1960s. The inheritor of two sometimes conflicting strains of the great American liberal tradition, Packer discusses the testing of ideals in the lives of his father and grandfather and his own struggle to understand the place of the progressive tradition in our currently polarized political climate. Searching, engrossing, and persuasive, Blood of the Liberals is an original, intimate examination of the meaning of politics in American lives.
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Exploration of America’s evolving liberal lineage.

If you're drawn to understanding the shifts in American political tides through personal narratives, "Blood of the Liberals" is a resonant read. Packer weaves history with his family's story, offering a candid examination of liberalism’s triumphs and crises that could resonate deeply with anyone interested in the interplay between personal and political legacies.