Understanding Liberalism

About the Book

By the 1990's liberalism had become a strange mixture of socialist, egalitarian, and illiberal thinking wholly inconsistent with the ideas that underpin the U.S. Constitution.

Understanding Liberalism: A History of and analysis of the Politics of the Last Half-Century provides a panoramic critique of the liberal era as related to the Constitutional principles on which the United States was founded, the English roots of the democracy that was adopted, the unintended consequences of welfare policies, and the transformation of the civil rights movement.

The book spans seven decades and tracks the rise of liberalism from the Depression era to its present determined attack on traditional American values. Understanding Liberalism: A History of and analysis of the Politics of the Last Half-Century provocatively examines the theories and practices of liberalism.

About the Author

The author is a World War II veteran who brought back to the US a French war bride. A native Texan, he pursued his graduate studies at Columbia University in New York. He was an economics instructor at the University of Texas at El Paso. Employed by an American oil and gas company, he was transferred to France in 1960 where he later became the CEO of the French subsidiary. He resided in France until 1982 with his wife and three children. He returned to the US with a great admiration for the culture and people of France and a more than theoretical knowledge of how the European model works. This permits him to compare the European and American models and the mindset of American liberals and European socialists.