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Review 'This books challenges some of the assumptions held about liberalism and reveals the historical foundations of why it may well be, above all, an elusive tradition.'---Alex Tebble, LSE Review of Books'Rosenblatt is impressive in the scope of her reading and at her best in identifying different usages of the term liberal.'---Peter Clarke, Financial Times'One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018''[Rosenblatt] presents liberals as moralists and debunks the notion of liberalism as so exclusively an Anglo-American phenomenon.'---Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution'An excellent recent survey of the term.'---David A. Bell, The Nation'Lively and penetrating. . . . Rosenblatt shows that liberalism has survived thanks to its appeal as a moral ideal, a vision of political community that is based not just on interests but also on values: respect, tolerance, and justice.'---G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs'Enlightening.' (New York Times Book Review)'The Lost History of Liberalism is yet another impressive performance from one of the leading intellectual historians and deserving of a broad readership.'---Max Skj�nsberg, Nations and Nationalism'I�ve spent my last days utterly enraptured with a fantastic new book that casts new light on a personal obsession: the history of the word liberalism.'---Jeffrey A Tucker, American Institute for Economic Research�s Daily Economy'A dispassionate overview of the term and concepts of liberalism?how it emerged, evolved, diversified, and alienated. Rosenblatt (History/Graduate Center, CUNY) has published previous works about liberalism (Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion, 2008, etc.), and she brings considerable scholarly substance to this work, though most of it forms the infrastructure for the accessible text. . . . There are some true surprises here, too, perhaps most notably the initial liberal opposition to women's rights and a fondness for eugenics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The author also notes, surprisingly, that factions within various liberal movements were opposed to government help for the poor?a disincentive, they claimed. Fair, balanced, and chockablock with information and surprise.' (Kirkus) Read more Review �Rosenblatt opens up new perspectives on what is, by any measure, an important and topical subject.�?Darrin M. McMahon, author of Divine Fury: A History of Genius�The Lost History of Liberalism is the most acute and careful account on the theme ever composed. Helena Rosenblatt�s accomplishment is thrilling, with self-evident implications for our own time of ideological strife.�?Samuel Moyn, Yale University �This clear and sure-footed intellectual history traces the evolution of the liberal tradition through a centuries-long international dialogue about character and the common good in which France and Germany played key roles. Against this backdrop, contemporary rights-focused Anglo-American liberalism can be interpreted as a response to the challenge of twentieth-century totalitarianism.�?William A. Galston, Brookings Institution�Rosenblatt�s remarkable book challenges us to rethink the whole history of liberalism. It restores many missing elements to the story, and shows how our understanding of liberalism has been distorted by its identification with individualism by a series of writers after World War II.�?Jerrold Seigel, author of The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe since the Seventeenth Century�How did liberalism become the dreaded L-word? While opponents portray liberalism as a set of ideas untethered to moral foundations, Rosenblatt traces out its centuries-long history, showing that proponents not only gave it a moral core but also called for leaders and citizens alike to dedicate themselves to the public good. In these times, we could use a bit of both.�?Heather Boushey, author of Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict�Systematic and daring, this provocative history of ideas reveals how the ethical qualities of liberalism, understood as a protean force, should be placed front and center. Inventively tracing the liberal tradition�s tense connections to religion and its engagement with other bodies of thought, this �lost history� forces a reappraisal of various established versions of liberalism�s origins, meaning, and development.�?Ira Katznelson, coauthor of Liberal Beginnings: Making a Republic for the Moderns�Rosenblatt�s The Lost History of Liberalism offers a timely account of how the words �liberal� and �liberalism� entered our political lexicon. A surprising saga, it�s also an invitation to rethink a basic?and embattled?modern value.�?James Miller, author of Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche Read more See all Editorial Reviews
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