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Liberalism The Life of an Idea, Second Edition

Edmund Fawcett

Despite playing a decisive role in shaping the past two hundred years of American and European politics, liberalism is no longer the dominant force it once was. In this expanded and updated edition of what has become a classic history of liberalism, Edmund Fawcett traces its ideals, successes, and f...

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The Ezra Klein Show

This book was cited to articulate liberalism's first idea: that conflict of interests and beliefs, when tamed, could bear fruit through argument, experiment, and exchange.

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It built towards liberalism's great insight, what Edmund Fawcett in his book, Liberalism, The Life of an Idea, calls liberalism's first idea. Conflict of interests and beliefs was to the liberal mind...

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Episode: This Is How the Democratic Party Beats Trump

This book was cited to articulate liberalism's first idea: that conflict of interests and beliefs, when tamed, could bear fruit through argument, experiment, and exchange.

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It built towards liberalism's great insight, what Edmund Fawcett in his book, Liberalism, The Life of an Idea, calls liberalism's first idea. Conflict of interests and beliefs was to the liberal mind inescapable. If tamed and turned to competition in a stable political order, conflict could nevertheless bear fruit as argument, experiment, and exchange.

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