CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION The Vital Historian 3 John Patrick Diggins and Michael Lind
PART ONE: HISTORY AS A VOCATION 17
CHAPTER 1 The Historian and the Public Realm 19 William E. Leuchtenburg
CHAPTER 2 The Historian as Political Advisor 43 Hugh Thomas
CHAPTER 3 The Historian and the Cycles of History 54 George F. Kennan
CHAPTER 4 The Lessons of an Historian 62 John Kenneth Galbraith
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Arthur Schlesinger1Jr.: Tory Democrat 67 John Morton Blum
PART TWO: THE ERA OF ANDREW JACKSON 73
CHAPTER 6 The Age of Jackson and Its Impact 75 Robert Remini
CHAPTER 7 Jacksonian Abolitionist: The Conversion of William Leggett 84 Sean Wilentz
CHAPTER 8 Race, Sex, and the Dimensions of Liberty in Antebellum America 107 Jean V. Matthews Vl CONTENTS PART THREE: MODERN LIBERALISM AND THE CHALLENGE OF GOVERNANCE 125
CHAPTER 9 The Two World Wars and the Idea of the State 127 Alan Brinkley
CHAPTER 10 Women, Politics, Philanthropy: Some Historical Origins of the Welfare State 142 Kathleen D. McCarthy
CHAPTER 11 The New Left, the New Right, and the New Deal 151 Fred Siegel
CHAPTER 12 "Malaise" Revisited: Jimmy Carter and the Crisis of Confidence 164 Leo P. Ribuffo
CHAPTER 13 Historical Analogies and Public Policy: The Black and Immigrant Experience in Urban America 185 Richard C. Wade
PART FOUR: AMERICA AND THE WORLD 197
CHAPTER 14 Woodrow Wilson and the Cold War 199 Betty Miller Unterberger
CHAPTER 15 America after the Cold War: Global Order, Democracy, and Domestic Consent 214 Ronald Steel
PART FIVE: IDEOLOGICAL CONTROVERSIES 231
CHAPTER 16 Christopher Lasch's Quarrel with Liberalism 233 Louis Menand
CHAPTER 17 Black Studies as Academic Discipline and Political Struggle 251 Eugene D. Genovese CONTENTS Vll
PART SIX: INTELLECTUAL HEROES 261
CHAPTER 18 William James and the Strenuous Responsibility of the Liberal Intellectual 263 George Cotkin
CHAPTER 19 Henry Steele Commager's Activist History 277 Neil Jumonville CHAPTER 20 Edmund Wilson at Oxford 301 Isaiah Berlin
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS BY SCHLESINGER 311
CONTRIBUTORS 313
ACKNO WLEDGMENTS 315
INDEX 317