Title:
Wilsonian idealism in America
Author:
Steigerwald, David.
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9780801429361
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Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, c1994.
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xiii, 296 p. ; 24 cm.
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Summary
Summary
David Steigerwald chronicles the legacy of Wilsonian idealism from its emergence during World War I through its recent resurgence during Desert Storm. His account encompasses the careers of many prominent twentieth-century political figures and thinkers, including Walter Lippmann, Elihu Root, Newton D. Baker, Raymond Fosdick, Adlai Stevenson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Theodore Lowi, and Francis Fukuyama.
Table of Contents
| preface | p. ix |
| 1 Liberalism between Two Worlds | p. 2 |
| 2 Liberal Idealism and Woodrow Wilson | p. 18 |
| 3 The Idealist Synthesis in American Internationalism | p. 39 |
| 4 Wilson Meets Modernity | p. 62 |
| 5 Barbarians at the Gate | p. 84 |
| 6 The Red Decade | p. 105 |
| 7 The Second Chance? | p. 131 |
| 8 The Dialectic of Realism and Faith | p. 168 |
| 9 A Tradition in Disrepute | p. 204 |
| 10 Idealism in the Age of the New Politics | p. 244 |
| Bibliography | p. 270 |
| Index | p. 291 |