Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- What We Talk About When We Talk About Liberalism -- Modern Literature and Liberal Politics -- The Discursive Origins of American Liberalism -- Making Liberalism New -- I A Liberal Modernism -- 1. Liberalism Incorporated: Intellectuals, Abortion, and the Critique of Possessive Individualism -- Tess Slesinger's Intellectuals and the Problems of Possession -- Wombs or Women? -- Modernism's Party Politics -- After the Party -- 2. Racial Liberalism: Native Son and the Problem of "Color-Blind" Law -- Social Psychology and the American Dilemma -- Color-Blind Justice -- Individualism and Reactionary Color Blindness -- Things Not Seen -- II A Modern Liberalism -- 3. The Inward Turn: Tragedy, Documentary, and the Making of the Postwar Liberal Imagination -- Let Us Not Praise Liberal Documentary -- Lionel Trilling and the Tragic Liberal Imagination -- Taking Tragedy to the White House -- Arthur Miller and the Ends of Tragedy -- 4. Ending in Style: JFK, Nabokov, and the Apotheosis of a Liberal Aesthetic -- Totalitarianism and the Democratic Character -- Intellectual Style in an Age of Abundance -- Lolita and the Liberal Ironist -- "Liberal Totalitarianism" and the Problem of the Presidency -- Conclusion: What's Left of Liberalism? (or What's So New about Neoliberalism?) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.