Title The Revolt Against the Masses : How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class.

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Summary	This short book rewrites the history of modern American liberalism. It shows that what we think of as liberalismthe top-and-bottom coalition we associate with President Obamabegan not with Progressivism or the New Deal but rather in the wake of WWI, in disillusionment with American society. In the 1920s, the first thinkers to call themselves liberals adopted the hostility to bourgeois life that had long characterized European intellectuals of both the left and right. The aim of liberalism's founderssuch as Herbert Croly, Randolph Bourne, H.G. Wells, Sinclair Lewis, and H.L. Menckenwas to c.
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Subject	Middle class -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Middle class.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Liberalism.
	United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
	Politics and government.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Siegel, Fred. Revolt Against the Masses : How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class. New York : Encounter Books, ©2015 9781594037955
ISBN	9781594037962 (electronic book)
	1594037965 (electronic book)