Bruce Baum 
The Post-Liberal Imagination [PDF ebook] 
Political Scenes from the American Cultural Landscape

PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World
2. ‘Humpday, ‘ ‘Soul Power, ‘ and the Politics of Hip
3. The Hero America Deserves? The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, and the Liberalism of Fear
4. Apes, Humans, and Other
PART II: ANIMALS: PROJECT NIM AND RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
5. Hollywood’s Crisis of Capitalism: ‘Inside Job’ and ‘The Company Men’
6. Occupy Wall Street, Steve Jobs’s ‘Genius, ‘ and Mad Men: Reflections on the Democratic
PART III: IMAGINATION
7. Hollywood on Race in the Age of Obama
8. President Obama and the White Problem
Conclusion

Bruce Baum is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is from Stamford, Connecticut, USA. He is the author of Rereading Power and Freedom in J.S. Mill (2000) and The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity (2006).