March of The Moderates: Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and the Rebirth of Progressive Politics

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Anglo-American relations, the so-called ‘Special Relationship’, reached a new era with the rise of New Labour and the New Democrats in the late-1980s and early-1990s. Richard Carr reveals the untold story of the transatlantic ‘Third Way’ by analysing how Tony Blair and Bill Clinton won power and ultimately how they lost it. Using newly unearthed archives and interviews with key players, he investigates the relationship between the administrations and sheds new light on big events such as the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, the handover to George W. Bush, and the controversial Iraq War. Cover page PRAISE FOR MARCH OF THE MODERATES Halftitle page Title page Copyright page CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Notes 1 TOO TIED TO MYTH; TOO ROOTED IN THE PAST The New Deal and New Jerusalem The limits of liberalism Defence and disorder British Disease, Bunker Mentality The Start of the Moderates Notes 2 ‘UNCONVINCING, UNINFORMED AND TIRED’ The left in the 1980s Reagan and Thatcher Anti-semitism, anti-Americanism Against defending our own country Siege economy and ideological purity The movement or the voters Notes 3 HARBINGERS OF THE REVOLUTION An alliance for change? Transatlanticism The Democratic Leadership Council and the ‘New Democrats’ Labour policy review 1988 A whole new world Notes 4 OFFICE AND OPPOSITION Prime Minister Kinnock? Clinton takes the nomination Beating Bush An Englishman in Little Rock Clinton transition and New Labour comes to town Notes 5 NEW DEMOCRATS, NEW AMERICA Delivering a new economic agenda Internal debates Legislative successes Healthcare 1994 Back to the centre Notes 6 LEARNING FROM THE BEST Over there New Labour, new leader Clause IV Bill and Tony 1: November 1995 Stakeholding Bill and Tony 2: April 1996 Polling, presentation and, finally, power Notes 7 BLAIR AND BROWN’S BRITAIN National Minimum Wage Opportunity Invest more, demand more: health Invest more, demand more: education Financial crisis Community Responsibility Notes 8 THE THIRD WAY INTERNATIONAL Blair in charge Northern Ireland Blair, Clinton and Lewinsky Brown’s America The Transnational Third Way Gore 2000 Blair alone Notes 9 INTERVENTION AND IRAQ Haiti Anguish in Africa Going in The Iraqi Prelude 9/11 Afghanistan The shifting kaleidoscope Blaming Blair Notes AFTERWORD Notes SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Archival material (ARC) United Kingdom United States of America Correspondence and interviews with the author (COR – and then relevant surname) Selected publications INDEX