The democratic imagination in America : conversations with our past /

The democratic imagination in America : conversations with our past /

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Russell Hanson discovers in the history of democratic rhetoric in the United States a series of essential contests" over the meaning of democracy that have occurred in periods of political and socio-economic change. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest prin...

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Main Author: Hanson, Russell L., 1953- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1985]
Ã1985
Series:Princeton legacy library
Subjects:
Political science > United States > History.
Democracy.
United States > Politics and government.
Electronic books.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • PROLOGUE
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Rhetoric of Democracy
  • CHAPTER TWO. Republican Rhetoric in the Founding Period
  • CHAPTER THREE. Democratic Republicanism in the United States
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Jacksonian Democracy
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War
  • CHAPTER SIX. The Triumph of Conservatism
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Direct Democracy and the Illusion of Fulfillment
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Democratic Consumerism
  • CHAPTER NINE. The Eclipse of Liberal Democracy
  • CHAPTER TEN. The Functionalization of Discourse
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Crisis of Liberal Democracy
  • CHAPTER TWELVE. History and Liberation
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX
  • Backmatter.

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