Barash, David P., THE L WORD, Morrow, 1992--An unapologetic explication and celebration of liberalism. explores its origins, documents the benefits its affirmative view of government has yielded all Americans, and effectively counterbalances the doomsaying negativism of right-wing reactionaries. 233 pages
Blumenthal, Sidney, THE RISE OF THE COUNTER ESTABLISHMENT: FROM CONSERVATIVE IDEOLOGY TO POLITICAL POWER, New York, Harper and Row, 1988--Based on hundreds of interviews with key plicy makers, this book shows how neoconservatives orchestrated their influence to change American life. paper 350 pages
Carnoy, Shearer and Rumberger, A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT: THE ECONOMY AND GOVERNMENT AFTER REAGAN, New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1983--Attacks conservative ideas which emerged during the eighties and attempts to show the failure of Reagan's economic policies. Outlines an original vision of new liberal economic policy, proposing the redistribution of resources to create more jobs, lessen staggering unemployment and meet public needs without increasing the individual's already heavy tax burden. 235 pages
Chafe, William H., NEVER STOP RUNNING, Basic Paperbound Pub.,New York, 1993. A biography of Allard Lowenstein and his struggle to save American liberalism. Follows both the dynamics of his personal life and events of his public career. 556 pages
Clinton, Rossiter and Lare, James, THE ESSENTIAL LIPPMANN: A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY FOR LIBERAL DEMOCRACY, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963--
Dunbar, Leslie W., RECLAIMING LIBERALISM, New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1991--Advocates cutting money for arms and taking the profit out of weapon making and using civil disobedience to do so. Calls for redefining liberalism and incorporating the right to live at its core. 202 pages
Galbraith, J.K. & Menshikov, S., CAPITALISM, COMMUNISM AND COEXISTENCE: FROM A BITTER PAST TO A BETTER PROSPECT, Houghton Mifflin, 1988--Sharp, surprising discussions on the similar and contrasting problems of the economic and political systems their histories and development. 225 pages
Galbraith, John Kenneth, THE CULTURE OF CONTENTMENT 195 pages
Gitenstein, Mark, MATTERS OF PRINCIPLE, Simon & Schuster, 1992--Explores the rejection of Robert Bork as nominee to the Supreme Court. 368 pages
Hagstrom, Jerry, BEYOND REAGAN, Norton 1988 & Penguin, 1989--Travels the country to assess how well the U.S. weathered the policies of Reagan's administration. 322 pages
Harrington, Michael, THE NEXT LEFT: THE HISTORY OF A FUTURE, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1986--Harrington traces the effects of the Depression, Fordism and the New Deal, the Great Society and the disillusionment with government programs that ensued in the seventies and eighties from the perspective of cochairman of the Democratic Socialists of America. 194 pages
Hitchens, Christopher, PREPARED FOR THE WORST, Hill & Wang,1988--The best of his essays from The Nation, The Times of London, Harper's,Mother Jones, The Washington Post, Granta and others, on topics ranging from our Era of Good Feelings to the meaning of "terrorrism" and political memoirs as literature. 357 pages
Hodges, Donald C., BUREAUCRATIZATION OF SOCIALISM, University of Massachusetts Press, 1981--Argues that Marxist method is the best theoretical tool for accurately explaining why socialist regimes evolved differently than Marx envisaged. 210 pages
Hunter, James Davison, CULTURE WARS: THE STRUGGLE TO DEFINE AMERICA, Harper, 1991--An account of how the battle lines are being drawn over the family, art, education, law, and politics as progressives are pitted against conservative "values." 416 pages
Ivins, Molly; MOLLY IVINS CAN'T SAY THAT CAN SHE?, Random House, Inc., New York, 1991- An unconventional account of Texas politics. 284 pages
Lappe, Frances Moore; DuBois, Paul Martin; THE QUICKENING OF AMERICA, Jossey - Bass, Inc. Publishers, San Francisco, 1994- Stories and insights on practicing democracy. 338 pages
Lash, Joseph P., DEALERS AND DREAMERS: A NEW LOOK AT THE NEW DEAL, New York: Doubleday, 1988--An account of the men and women who created the Roosevelt Revolution. This Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer used the private unpublished papers of Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Cohen for his research. 494 pages
Levin, Robert E., DEMOCRATIC BLUEPRINTS: NATIONAL LEADERS CHART AMERICA'S FUTURE, New York: Hippocrene Books, 1988--46 essays on policy by party leaders, sympathetic media stars and others. 544 pages
Page, Benjamin I.,WHO GETS WHAT FROM GOVERNMENT, University of CA Press,--Attempts to show that current governmental policies cause economic inequality. 264 pages
Rothenberg, Randall, THE NEO-LIBERALS: CREATING THE NEW AMERICAN POLITICS, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1984--Discusses the political generation which includes Gary Hart, Bill Bradley, James Hunt, Robert Reich, Lester Thurow, and the new ideas; high- tech economics, national service, military reform, public-privater cooperation and industrial policy. 269 pages
Saloma, Johns S. III, OMINOUS POLITICS: THE NEW CONSERVATIVE LABYRINTH, New York: Hill and Wang, 1984--Looks at conservative think tanks, foundations, members of congress, and minorities from the liberal perspective. 160 pages
Schwab, Larry M., THE ILLUSION OF A CONSERVATIVE REAGAN REVOLUTION, Transaction Publishers, 1991--Suggests that no reversal of the New Deal-Great Society era took place. 243 pages
Shalom, Steve Rossakamm, SOCIALIST VISIONS, South End Press, 1983--A provocative collection of original essays, offering a broad range of socialist perspectives and describing and debating different visions of a socialist United States. 300 pages