We argue here that the hybridation of seminal European and American New Lefts, that happened in New York under Nicola “Nick” Chiaromonte’s Invisible Direction in the 1940s, was a decisive, necessary and irreversible step toward the (path dependent) emergence of contemporary Liberalism in the East Coast, that has now expressed its most mature figure in President Obama.
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