Introduction 1. The Founding Father: Franklin D. Roosevelt 2. The Commoner: Harry S. Truman 3. The Crisis and Regeneration of Republican Conservatism: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Robert A. Taft, and Joseph R. McCarthy 4. The Politics of Prophecy: Martin Luther King, Jr. 5. From the Old Politics to the New: John and Robert Kennedy 6. The Politics of Excess: Lyndon B. Johnson 7. The Flawed Challenger: Richard M. Nixon 8. The Roosevelt of the Right: Ronald Reagan Epilogue: The Exhaustion of Liberalism, the Limits of Conservatism, and the Enduring Deadlock of Democracy Selected Bibliography Index