La historia olvidada del liberalismo

The forgotten history of liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become both a rallying cry and a derogatory term for political debate. Helena Rosenblatt traces the evolution of the words "liberal" and "liberalism" from ancient Rome to today, reviewing the heated debates that have taken place about their meaning. In this timely and provocative book, Rosenblatt debunks the popular myth of liberalism as an exclusively Anglo-American tradition focused on individual rights. He tells us that it was the French Revolution that gave rise to liberalism, and that only in the middle of the 20th century the concept became widely known in the United States. It was during the Cold War and the growing world hegemony of the United States that liberalism was converted into an American ideology strongly focused on individual liberties.