Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface to the Paperback Edition xi
4. Preface xvii
5. Acknowledgments xxiii
6. Introduction: It’s About More Than Liberty 1
7. PART ONE. The Confidence of Youth (1830– 1880)
8. 1. Historical Setting in the 1830s: Thrown into a World of Ceaseless Change 27
9. 2. Guiding Thoughts from Founding Thinkers: Conflict, Resistance, Progress, and Respect 34
10. 3. Liberalism in Practice: Four Exemplary Politicians 98
11. 4. The Nineteenth- Century Legacy: Liberalism without Caricature 117
12. PART TWO. Liberalism in Maturity and the Struggle with Democracy (1880– 1945)
13. 5. Historical Setting in the 1880s: The World Liberals Were Making 137
14. 6. The Compromises That Gave Us Liberal Democracy 146
15. 7. The Economic Powers of the Modern State and Modern Market 173
16. 8. Damaged Ideals and Broken Dreams 198
17. 9. Thinking about Liberalism in the 1930s– 1940s 275
18. PART THREE Second Chance and Success (1945– 1989)
19. 10. Historical Setting after 1945: Liberal Democracy’s New Start 285
20. 11. New Foundations: Rights, a Democratic Rule of Law, and Welfare 290
21. 12. Liberal Thinking after 1945 316
22. 13. The Breadth of Liberal Politics in the 1950s–1980s 355
23. PART FOUR. After 1989
24. Coda: Liberal Dreams in the Twenty- First Century 391
25. Works Consulted 409
26. Name Index 433
27. Subject Index 444