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American Freedom Alliance is proud to present

The March installment of the Lecture and Conference Series

Liberalism's Betrayal of Western Values and Ideals

featuring

Fred Siegel

author of the recently published: The Revolt Against the Masses:
How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class.

Tuesday, March 4, 2014 at 6:30 pm

Location: Beverly Hills Public Library, 444 N Rexford Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Admission: $15.00 

Parking: Two hours Free at the Beverly Hills Public Library

 

About the Book:

The Revolt Against the Masses:
How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class.

The book is a history of the foundational attitudes of liberalism: contempt for the middle class, skepticism of democracy, the yearning to establish an elite ruling class. Fred exhumes the often overlooked “founding fathers” of liberalism such as New Republic co-founder Herbert Croly, Randolph Bourne, H.L. Mencken, H.G. Wells, and Sinclair Lewis. Mr. Siegel explains the lasting grip of their ideas over liberalism and offers a window into the self-righteous mindset of the ascendant liberal ruling class.

 

About the Speaker:

Fred Siegel
Fred Siegel is the author, most recently, of The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life (2005), which received the cover review in the New York Times Book Review. His previous book, The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America’s Big Cities, was named by Peter Jennings as one of the 100 most important books about the U.S. in the twentieth century. He has written widely on American and European politics and was described as “the historian of the American city” in a November 2011 profile in the Wall Street Journal.

The former editor of City Journal, he has written for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The Atlantic, Commentary, The New Republic, Dissent, and many other publications. He has also appeared widely on TV and radio.

A former senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., Mr. Siegel is currently a scholar in residence at St. Francis College in Brooklyn and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.