Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History - Hardcover

$30.00

Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History - Hardcover

Name: Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History - Hardcover
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SKU: 9780226824369
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by Kevin M. Schultz

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Book Overview

A bracing, accessible history of white American liberals--and why it's time to change the conversation about them.

If there's one thing most Americans can agree on, it's that everyone hates white liberals. Conservatives hate them for being culturally tolerant and threatening to usher in communism. Libertarians hate them for believing in the power of the state. Socialists hate them for serving as capitalism's beard. Even liberals hate liberals--either because they can't manage to overcome their own prejudices, or precisely because they're so self-hating.

This is the starting point for Kevin M. Schultz's lively new history of white liberals in the United States. He efficiently lays out the array of objections to liberals--ineffective, spineless, judgmental, authoritarian, and more--in a historical frame that shows how protean the concept has been throughout the past hundred years. It turns out, he declares, that how you define a "white liberal" is less a reflection of reality and more a Rorschach test revealing your own anxieties.

Sharply assessing how decades of attacks on liberals and liberalism have steadily hollowed out the center of American political life, Schultz also explains precisely what needs to be done to avoid digging ourselves even further into the hole of polarization. The ultimate goal, he argues, is to achieve political fragmentation that will fuel the rise of a true multiparty system, where ideology will matter more, not less.

With a tight command of postwar American history and a spirited voice, Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals) is a must-read for anyone wishing to understand--and envision a way forward in--the complicated landscape of American politics.

ISBN	9780226824369
Author	Kevin M. Schultz
Publisher	University of Chicago Press
Genre	News & politics and History
Format	Hardcover
Published	May 2025
Language	ENG- English
Pages	256
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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