{"id":22295,"date":"2024-08-26T11:16:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T15:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=22295"},"modified":"2024-08-26T11:16:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T15:16:21","slug":"henry-tonks","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/profiles\/henry-tonks\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Tonks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><em><strong>Don\u2019t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow: Remaking American Liberalism in an Age of Crisis, 1972-1992<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>During his victorious 1992 presidential campaign, Bill Clinton frequently declared that his was \u201ca new generation of Democrats,\u201d who \u201cdon\u2019t think the way the old Democrats did.\u201d<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span>The truth was far more complicated. Clinton\u2019s victory marked the culmination of two tumultuous decades for liberalism: the United States\u2019 postwar social and economic order collapsed, and a conservative movement represented by figures such as Ronald Reagan ascended within American politics. My dissertation, \u201cDon\u2019t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow: Remaking American Liberalism in an Age of Crisis, 1972-1992\u201d, traces how industrial decline, social upheaval, and racial politics intersected in those tumultuous decades to forge the liberalism of the contemporary United States, a liberalism committed simultaneously \u2013 and often contradictorily \u2013 to both inclusion and individualism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16661,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/22295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/22295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22297,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/22295\/revisions\/22297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}