The Problem Of American Liberalism: Post-Christmas Redux

I'm sorry to be persistent, but can we continue this discussion?

Perhaps, as a starting point, we might construct a bibliography of the best books to tackle each of the questions I posed in relation to the history of American Liberalism. To catalyze your memories, here is the question list from my prior post (somewhat modified):

- When did American liberalism begin? The Progressive Era?
- What was the apex of American liberalism? The early 1960s?
- Is the "liberal project" in America dead? As of when? Perhaps it's still in its death throes?
- What is peculiar about American liberalism in terms of what Max Lerner called the "battlefields of liberalism"?
- Why is liberalism both loved and loathed?
- What is liberalism's relationship to the academy?
- What is liberalism's relationship with American modernity? Are they chronologically the same? Are they two sides of the same coin?
- What is philosophy's relationship with liberalism?
- Who are the most articulate proponents of liberalism in philosophy? Rawls? Dewey? Habermas? Walzer?
- Why is liberalism---in a very weird turn of events---sometimes confused with socialism/communism?
- What is liberalism's relationship with the Left? When are they not the same?
- What is liberalism's relationship with the Arts?
- Who are exemplars of U.S. political liberalism? Franklin Delano Roosevelt? LBJ?
- How does liberalism cross party lines? Or rather, is there such a category as "Republican Liberalism"?
- What is liberalism's relationship to the common terms of liberal and conservative?
- Could Ronald Reagan be classified as an exemplar of Republican liberalism? Eisenhower?
- What is liberalism in American economic terms?
- What is the relationship between class (economic) and liberalism?
- If liberalism has been instrumental in the construction of something of a "welfare state" in America, why is liberalism reviled by those on the far Left?
- Why is religion's relationship---whether Christian or otherwise---with liberalism troubled?
- Are secularism and liberalism basically synonymous?
- What is liberalism's relationship with multiculturalism? What of pluralism?
- What is postmodernism's relationship with liberalism?
- Why is liberalism prone to the anarchy of license, "absolute liberty," and laissez-faire?
- Can equality exist without liberalism?
- With all this potential confusion about the term, who are "liberals"?