Each movement arose in criticism of what came before.įollowing the revolution of the 1960s, elites on both left and right turned against the industrial middle class to erect an oligarchy at home and advance globalization abroad.
But there were substantial differences between Teddy Roosevelt's Anglo-Protestant progressive social gospelers, who battled trusts and curbed immigration Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson's secular liberals, who initiated government-business partnership and a civil rights agenda and the 1960s radicals, who protested corporate influence in the Great Society, liberal hypocrisy on race and gender, and the war in Vietnam. Kevin Slack clarifies the distinct aims of the movements they represent, and weighs their consequences for the American Republic.Įach of the three movements rejected older republican principles of governance in favor of an administrative state. Americans often use the words progressive, liberal, and radical more or less interchangeably, without reference to their place in our nation's history.
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