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notes Introduction 1. Maureen Dowd, “the house republican Leader; Vengeful glee (and sweetness ) at gingrich’s Victory Party,” New York Times, november 9, 1994; Peter Applebome , “the south; the rising goP tide overwhelms the Democratic Levees in the south,” New York Times, november 11, 1994. 2. Kevin Merida, “Last rites for Liberalism?” Washington Post, December 28, 1994, 1A. 3. Dowd, “the house republican Leader”; Applebome, “the south.” 4. Merida, “Last rites for Liberalism?” 5. U.s. President, “January 23, 1996, Address Before a Joint session of the Congress on the state of the Union,” in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States—William J. Clinton, 1996 Book I—January to June 30, 1996: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1993–2001 (Washington , DC: U.s. government Printing office, 1996), 79. 6. sam Verhovek, “the Contender: Phil gramm’s offbeat Charm as a Persistent Conservative,” New York Times, December 27, 1995. 7. gary gerstle, “the Protean Character of American Liberalism,” American Historical Review 99, no. 4 (october 1994): 1043–73. 8. see Arthur schlesinger Jr., The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom (Boston: houghton Mifflin, 1949). 9. Arthur schlesinger Jr., A Life in the 20th Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917–1950 (new York: houghton Mifflin, 2000), and “the Legacy of Andrew Jackson,” American Mercury, February 1947, 172; ours is an Age without heroes , file “the Decline of greatness,” box W-34, AMs Papers, John F. Kennedy Papers , John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum; nothing is More Common these Days than Lamentation over the Plight of the Liberals (August 4, 1957), p. 7, file “Where Does a Liberal go from here,” box W-34, AMs Papers, John F. Kennedy Papers; James nuechterlein, “Arthur M. schlesinger, Jr. and the Discontents of Postwar American Liberalism,” Review of Politics 39, no. 1 (January 1977): 4; stephen P. Depoe, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and the Ideological History of American Liberalism (tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994), 5. 10. Arthur schlesinger Jr., “not right, not Left, but a Vital Center,” Sunday New York Times Magazine, April 4, 1948. 11. Memorandum for the President: Walter Lippmann and Paris (February 1, 1961), file “schlesinger 3/61–4/61,” box 65, President’s office Files staff Memos, 254 Notes to Pages 5–15 John F. Kennedy Papers; Letter from schlesinger to JFK (“Marian and i could not have had a better time at luncheon”; november 14, 1960), p. 3, file “schlesinger 3/61–4/61,” box 65, President’s office Files staff Memos, John F. Kennedy Papers; “the Presidency in the 1960s,” file “state of the Union Message Memoranda,” box 63, ted sorensen Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum; remarks of senator John F. Kennedy—hillsborough high school (May 17, 1960), file “President’s responsibility in Foreign Affairs,” box 1031, Pre-Presidential Papers, John F. Kennedy Library; Letter from niebuhr to schlesinger (september 9, 1960), folder 2, file “r. niebuhr, 1955–61,” box P20, AMs Papers, John F. Kennedy Papers. 12. Dominic sandbrook, Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism (new York: Knopf, 2004), 221. 13. ibid., 222–23. 14. Bruce Miroff, The Liberals’ Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity Crisis of the Democratic Party (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007), 3. 15. ibid., 300–301. 16. ibid., 3. 17. steve gillon, The Democrats’ Dilemma: Walter F. Mondale and the Liberal Legacy (new York: Columbia University Press, 1992), xxiv. 18. ibid., 395, 401–2. 19. “remarks by Ben Wattenberg” (March 31, 1981), folder “speeches: Kirkpatrick ; February 2, 1981,” box 18, Peter rosenblatt Papers, LBJ Presidential Library. 20. Peter Bourne, Jimmy Carter: A Comprehensive Biography from Plains to Post-Presidency (new York: scribner, 1997), 441. 21. ibid., 442. 22. U.s. President, “energy and national goals” (July 15, 1979), in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States—Jimmy Carter: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1977–1981 (Washington, DC: U.s. government Printing office, 1979), 1235–37. 23. James giglio, Call Me Tom: The Life of Thomas F. Eagleton (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2011), 152–53. 24. richard scammon and Ben Wattenberg, The Real Majority (1970; new York: Primus/Donald i. Fine, 1992), 35–44. 25. elizabeth Drew, “Letter from Washington,” New Yorker, December 12, 1988, 123. 26. ibid., 124. 27. Matthew Kelly, “Dukakis responds Again to rape Query,” Seattle Times, november 2, 1988, 10A. 28. Christopher Lasch, The New Radicalism in America, 1889–1963 (new York: Knopf, 1965), xviii. 29. Alonzo...
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