Liberalism and Its Challengers: FDR to Reagan, by Alonzo L. Hamby (Oxford, 386 pp., $24.95)
At first glance a book about liberalism since Franklin Roosevelt, written by a liberal, would seem unlikely to be appetizing fare for readers of NR. On closer inspection, it appears even less so. The work is largely derivative, a synthesis of secondary accounts organized around a succession of presidential Administrations, with a chapter on Martin Luther King Jr. thrown in for color. Such a format is as inherently soporific as a textbook.
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