TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wolfe,Alan
TI  - The politics of petulance: America in an age of immaturity 
SN  - 9780226555164 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - JC574.2.U6 W855 2018
U1  - 320.51/30973 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - United States
KW  - Politics, Practical
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Populism
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Mature liberalism -- Democracy's demagogue -- The return of mass society -- From conspiracy to irony -- Tragedy, comedy, and American democracy -- Immature democracy -- Some lessons for the future
N2  - In this book he diagnoses what led to Trump: a culture of political immaturity-one that we've seen before, most recently in the McCarthy era, and defeated before. Looking to the midcentury intellectuals who helped win that battle, Wolfe charts a strategy for our own time
ER  -