{"product_id":"mastery-and-drift-professional-class-liberals-since-the-1960s-9780226838137","title":"Mastery and Drift: Professional-Class Liberals Since the 1960s","description":"\u003cb\u003eA revelatory look at \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003emodern liberalism's historical evolution and enduring impact on contemporary politics and society. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Since the 1960s, American liberalism and the Democratic Party have been remade along professional class lines, widening liberalism's impact but narrowing its social and political vision. In \u003ci\u003eMastery and Drift\u003c\/i\u003e, historians Brent Cebul and Lily Geismer have assembled a group of scholars to address the formation of \"professional-class liberalism\" and its central role in remaking electoral politics and the practice of governance. Across subjects as varied as philanthropy, consulting, health care, welfare, race, immigration, economics, and foreign conflicts, the authors examine not only the gaps between liberals' egalitarian aspirations and their approaches to policymaking but also how the intricacies of contemporary governance have tended to bolster professional-class liberals' power. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The contributors to \u003ci\u003eMastery and Drift \u003c\/i\u003eall came of age amid the development of professional-class liberalism, giving them distinctive and important perspectives in understanding its internal limitations and its relationship to neoliberalism and the Right. With never-ending disputes over the meaning of liberalism, the content of its governance, and its relationship to a resurgent Left, now is the time to consider modern liberalism's place in contemporary American life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrent Cebul \u003c\/b\u003eis associate professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eIllusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eShaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e. With Geraldo Cadava, N. D. B Connolly, and Lily Geismer, he is a coeditor of the new political history series America Reframed, published by the University of Chicago Press. \u003cb\u003eLily Geismer\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history at Claremont McKenna College and the author of \u003ci\u003eLeft Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDon't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eShaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e. With Geraldo Cadava, Brent Cebul, and N. D. B Connolly, she is coeditor of the new political history series America Reframed, published by the University of Chicago Press. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183650275602,"sku":"9780226838137","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_61523091-6fc0-40d6-a0a3-4d47ee60d122.jpg?v=1744474579","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mastery-and-drift-professional-class-liberals-since-the-1960s-9780226838137","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}