Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Foreword: A Career in Full xi
5. PART I. A Historian’s Work
6. 1. A Personal History 3
7. 2. The “Dissident Ideology” Revisited: Populism and Prescience in Voices of Protest 13
8. 3. The End of Reform: A Reconsideration 26
9. 4. After Reform: The Odyssey of American Liberalism in Liberalism and Its Discontents 39
10. 5. Objectivity and Its Discontents: Reflections on The Publisher 53
11. 6. The Liberal’s Imagination: “The Problem of American Conservatism” Then and Now 65
12. 7. Alan Brinkley and the Revival of Political History 79
13. 8. Houdini, Hip-Hop, and Dystopian Literature: Alan Brinkley’s Patterns of Culture 94
14. 9. The View from the Classroom 108
15. 10. A Historian and His Publics 120
16. PART II. Reminiscences
17. 11. The Lost Masterpiece 129
18. 12. The Skinny One with Glasses and Receding Hairline 135
19. 13. Lord Root-of-the-Matter 139
20. 14. Careers in Counterpoint 143
21. 15. History as a Humanizing Art 148
22. 16. Two Kids from Chevy Chase 153
23. Appendix: Transcript of C-SPAN’s Booknotes: An Interview Between Host Brian Lamb and Alan Brinkley, August 31, 1993 157
24. Notes 183
25. Contributors 203
26. Index 207