
Blood of the Liberals
An acclaimed journalist and novelist explores the legacy and future of American liberalism through the history of his family''s politically active history
George Packer''s maternal grandfather, George Huddleston, was a populist congressman from Alabama in the early part of the century--an agrarian liberal in the Jacksonian mold who opposed the New Deal. Packer''s father was a Kennedy-era liberal, a...
An acclaimed journalist and novelist explores the legacy and future of American liberalism through the history of his family''s politically active history
George Packer''s maternal grandfather, George Huddleston, was a populist congressman from Alabama in the early part of the century--an agrarian liberal in the Jacksonian mold who opposed the New Deal. Packer''s father was a Kennedy-era liberal, a...