American Liberal Disillusionment in the Wake of World War I

by Stuart I. Rochester

Book Overview

Tracing American liberal disillusionment from World War I through the Cold War, the author argues that Sarajevo contributed as much to the process as did Stalinism. He thus takes issues with historians who play down the theme of "war as watershed." The 1914 20 years were pivotal, Dr. Rochester asserts, in " a remarkable intellectual metamorphosis which found erstwhile liberals converted to conservatism, pollyannas transformed into despairing cynics,...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271012331
• ISBN13: 9780271012339
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.