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Introduction : The Liberal Party and the Rise and Fall of Pragmatic Social Democracy -- Labor Politics in New York -- "Fighting Liberals" at the Polls -- New Deal Legacy at the Crossroads -- A "Year-Round Party" -- Cold War Liberalism in City, State and Nation -- Liberal Crusades and Backroom Deals -- New Frontiers -- Liberal Victory and Liberalism in Turmoil -- Wars in Vietnam and at Home -- The End of the Rose Era -- Not Liberal, Not a Party -- Postscript : The Afterlife of the Liberal Party.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Note on Orthography and Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. The Old World -- 2. The New World -- 3. Landsmanshaft Culture and Immigrant Identities -- 4. Brothers in Need -- 5. The Building Blocks of Community -- 6. Institutional Dilemmas -- 7. The Heroic Period -- 8. Looking Backward -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

In this imaginative and readable book, Andrew Godley argues that culture matters in economics, and that some cultural traits encourage entrepreneurship, and therefore material prosperity, more than others. More specifically, he joins debates among British historians over the causes for Britain's relative economic decline around the turn of the twentieth century. He argues that British culture was in fact anti-entrepreneurial and concludes that this was likely to have had a negative impact on the country's economic fortunes. This is, therefore, really a book about Britain and its economic culture. Though it certainly has interesting insights into Jewish history as well; the author uses the Jews primarily as a "control group" in his historical "experiment."