Liberal

In a decade of growing conservatism, the intellectual and moral assumptions of liberalism from the New Deal to the Great Society have been frequently questioned, criticized, and , at times, distorted. In this, the first full-length biography of Adolf A. Berle, Jr. - braintruster to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Fiorello H. LaGuardia - Jordan A. Schwarz provides a sharply etched portrait of a man who personified the ideas, the vision, and the aspirations that shaped American liberalism in modern times. Drawn from Berle's own writings, including his private papers and diaries, extensive historical…