American Liberalism and World Politics, 1931-1941 TWO VOLUME SET For Sale

James J. Martin, in his comprehensive documentary study of howthe liberal intellectuals came to abandon their brains does not speakas a moral dogmatist. His method is to let the protagonists establishout of their own mouths their own record of wavering and contradiction as it appeared in such publications as The Nation, the New Republic and Common Sense. It provides amazing reading and will produce no little consternation on the part of both participants andreaders. Whatever one is to make of Dr. Martin\'s startling exhumations, the liberal flip-flop is not to be denied.If the flip-flop had cleansed the world of the totalitarian virus, or atleast isolated it, it would have been justified. But that job still remainsto be done, and the Liberals\' attitude towards the \"peace\" resultingfrom their war has only compounded the problems and dangers thatthey did more than any others to produce.The heritage of the liberal flip-flop is a universal and vastly expensive Cold War, the ever-present threat of nuclear destruction, anenormous expansion of Communist power throughout the Old Worldand its increasing menace to our own Hemisphere. If one is worried,as any patriotic and humane American should be, about the Berlinix ForewordWall, the suppressed populations of eastern Europe, the fluid and uncertain destiny of the Middle East, the apparently endless troublesin Southeast Asia, the racism-in-reverse of Africa, and the inabilityof the West to defend itself in the United Nations, Dr. Martin\'s pagesafford us the first complete insight into the manner in which thisdevelopment got started and gained its ominous momentum, with anoutcome that is today as incalculable as it is foreboding.If it is possible for even the literate public to learn anything fromhistory, here is an unique opportunity to profit by examining thecauses and genesis of perhaps the most momentous complex of mistakes in human experience.