7. Jacksonian Abolitionist: The Conversion of William Leggett

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. The Vital Historian 1
4. Part One: History as a Vocation
5. 1. The Historian and the Public Realm 19
6. 2. The Historian as Political Advisor 43
7. 3. The Historian and the Cycles of History 54
8. 4. The Lessons of an Historian 62
9. 5. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: Tory Democrat 67
10. Part Two: The Era of Andrew Jackson
11. 6. The Age of Jackson and its Impact 75
12. 7. Jacksonian Abolitionist: The Conversion of William Leggett 84
13. 8. Race, Sex, and the Dimensions of Liberty in Antebellum America 107
14. Part Three: Modern Liberalism and the Challenge of Governance
15. 9. The Two World Wars and the Idea of the State 127
16. 10. Women, Politics, Philanthropy: Some Historical Origins of the Welfare State 142
17. 11. The New Left, the New Right, and the New Deal 151
18. 12.“Malaise” Revisited: Jimmy Carter and the Crisis of Confidence 164
19. 13. Historical Analogies and Public Policy: The Black and Immigrant Experience in Urban America 185
20. Part Four: America and the World
21. 14. Woodrow Wilson and the Cold War 199
22. 15. America after the Cold War: Global Order, Democracy, and Domestic Consent 214
23. Part Five: Ideological Controversies
24. 16. Christopher Lasch’s Quarrel with Liberalism 233
25. 17. Black Studies as Academic Discipline and Political Struggle 251
26. Part Six: Intellectual Heroes
27. 18. William James and the Strenuous Responsibility of the Liberal Intellectual 263
28. 19. Henry Steele Commager’s Activist History 277
29. 20. Edmund Wilson at Oxford 301
30. Selected Bibliography of Works by Schlesinger 311
31. Contributors 313
32. Acknowledgments 315
33. Index 317