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The liberal choice: Adam Smith or FDR?

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From: The Christian Century
Date: 20020731
Author:Neal, Patrick

LIBERALISM IN AMERICA is either dying or alive and well--depending on whom you listen to or how you define the term. The practical liberalism of FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society has lately appeared to be moribund as a political force. Yet liberalism as a political theory, understood as a cooperative enterprise for mutual advantage among free and equal persons, is considered by friend and the alike the essential expression of what it means to be a political animal in the modern West. These two books address these quite different understandings of liberalism, and reach quite ...

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