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 CHAPTER 5 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 .