false <![CDATA[Blood of the Liberals]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1212950928m/217990.jpg 217990 2 <div>An acclaimed journalist and novelist explores the legacy and future of American liberalism through the history of his family's politically active history<br><br>George 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, this is an original, intimate examination of the meaning of politics in American lives.<br></div> 899221 1 8 2000 Blood of the Liberals total:27|5:7|4:11|3:7|2:2|1:0| 27 104 45 6 4 0 false false Tue May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Fri Feb 15 19:31:06 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 15 19:31:06 -0800 2008 This is a really wonderful book about family, politics, generations of liberalism and what liberalism really means.

Lightly written, that is to say not ponderous or pretentious or dense.

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