Redeeming American political thought /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shklar, Judith N.
Other Authors: Hoffmann, Stanley., Thompson, Dennis F. 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1998.
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Table of Contents:
  • Alexander Hamilton and the language of political science
  • A friendship
  • Hawthorne in utopia
  • Emerson and the inhibitions of democracy
  • An education for America: Tocqueville, Hawthorne, Emerson
  • The education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams
  • Redeeming American political theory
  • Positive liberty, negative liberty in the United States
  • The boundaries of democracy
  • The American ideal of aristocracy
  • A new constitution for a new nation
  • Democracy and the past: Jefferson and his heirs
  • Democratic customs.