Contents
PART I • What Kind of Freedom?
CHAPTER 1 The Crisis of Leadership
THE DIVIDED LEGACY
THE “HUNDRED DAYS” OF ACTION
“DISCIPLINE AND DIRECTION UNDER LEADERSHIP”?
CHAPTER 2 The Arc of Conflict
CLASS WAR IN AMERICA
“LENIN OR CHRIST” OR A PATH BETWEEN?
THE POLITICS OF TUMULT
APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE
CHAPTER 3 The Crisis of Majority Rule
COURT-PACKING: THE SWITCH IN TIME
CONGRESS-PURGING: THE BROKEN SPELL
DEADLOCK AT THE CENTER
THE FISSION OF IDEAS
THE PEOPLE’S ART
PART II • Strategies of Freedom
CHAPTER 4 Freedom Under Siege
THE ZIGZAG ROAD TO WAR
THE WAR OF TWO WORLDS
THE PRODUCTION OF WAR
THE RAINBOW COALITION EMBATTLED
CHAPTER 5 Cold War: The Fearful Giants
THE DEATH AND LIFE OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
THE LONG TELEGRAM
THE SPIRAL OF FEAR
THE PRICE OF SUSPICION
CHAPTER 6 The Imperium of Freedom
THE TECHNOLOGY OF FREEDOM
THE LANGUAGE OF FREEDOM
DILEMMAS OF FREEDOM
CHAPTER 7 The Free and the Unfree
THE BOSTON IRISH
THE SOUTHERN POOR
THE INVISIBLE LATINS
THE REVOLUTIONARY ASIANS
PART III • Liberation Struggles
CHAPTER 8 Striding Toward Freedom
ONWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS
MARCHING TO WAR
WE SHALL OVERCOME
CHAPTER 9 The World Turned Upside Down
PEOPLE OF THIS GENERATION
ROLLING THUNDER
INTO THE QUICKSAND
SONGS OF THE SIXTIES
CHAPTER 10 Liberty, Equality, Sisterhood
BREAKING THROUGH THE SILKEN CURTAIN
THE LIBERATION OF WOMEN
THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL
PART IV • The Crosswinds of Freedom
CHAPTER 11 Prime Time: Peking and Moscow
FINDING CHINA
PEACE WITHOUT PEACE
FOREIGN POLICY: THE FALTERING EXPERIMENTS
CHAPTER 12 Vice and Virtue
WATERGATE: A MORALITY TALE
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
CARTER: THE ARC OF MORALITY
GUN AND BIBLE
CHAPTER 13 The Culture of the Workshop
THE DICING GAME OF SCIENCE
THE RICH AND THE POOR
CROSSWAYS, LAND AND SKY
PART V • The Rebirth of Freedom?
CHAPTER 14 The Kaleidoscope of Thought
HABITS OF INDIVIDUALISM
KINESIS: THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIANS
SUPERSPECTATORSHIP
THE NEW YORKERS
THE CONSERVATIVE MALL
CHAPTER 15 The Decline of Leadership
REPUBLICANS: WAITING FOR MR. RIGHT
THE STRUCTURE OF DISARRAY
REALIGNMENT? WAITING FOR LEFTY
A REBIRTH OF LEADERSHIP?
MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE: A PERSONAL EPILOGUE
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX