| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

The Achievement of American Liberalism: The New Deal and Its Legacies. Ed. by William H. Chafe. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. xx, 346 pp. Cloth, $52.50, ISBN 0-231-11212-2. Paper, $24.50, ISBN 0-231-11213-0.)
The essays collected in this tribute to William E. Leuchtenburg survey the arc of American liberalism from the New Deal to the end of the twentieth century, from its hard-won but ultimately partial midcentury triumphs through its slow decline in the century's waning decades. The contributions, generally broad synthetic essays with a few more finely rendered pieces thrown in for good measure, are almost all effective and accomplished pieces.	1
They naturally group themselves into several clusters. Alan Brinkley, Alonzo Hamby, and Melvin Urofsky offer masterly surveys of New Deal public policy, Democratic party developments, and the Supreme Court, respectively.	2
Richard Fried and Richard Polenberg tackle the Cold War and the challenge posed to American liberalism by Communism and, especially, by anticommunism. Fried usefully puts McCarthyism in a longer historical context, while Polenberg's interesting biographical sketch of J. Robert Oppenheimer seems rather disconnected from the volume's larger themes.	. . .

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