Primary reading:
Alonzo L. Hamby: Liberalism and Its Challengers, 1992. New York: Oxford UP.
Louis Hartz: The Liberal Tradition in America, 1991. New York: Harcourt.
Michael J. Sandel, ed: Liberalism and Its Critics, 1984. New York UP.
Michael J. Sandel (ed.): Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Policy, 1996. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press/Belknap.
Secondary reading:
Alan Brinkley: Liberalism and Its Discontent, 1998. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP.
James W. Ceaser: Liberal Democracy & Political Science, 1992. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Theodore J. Lowi: The End of Liberalism, 1979. New York: Norton.
Bruce J. Schulman: Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism, 1995. N.Y.: Bedford/St. .
R.M. Smith: Liberalism and American Constitutional Law, 1990. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP.
H.W. Brands: The Strange Death of American Liberalism, 2001. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP.