Liberalism and Its Discontents Author:Alan Brinkley In this history of liberalism since the 1930s, Alan Brinkley offers an eloquent account of postwar liberalism. He goes beyond an examination of the internal weaknesses of liberalism and the broad social and economic forces it faced to consider the role of alternative political traditions in liberalism's downfall. What emerges is a picture of a d... more »ominant political tradition far less uniform and stable--and far more complex and contested--than has been argued.« less