Liberal Tradition in America

Name: Liberal Tradition in America
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ISBN: 9780156512695

ISBN-10: 0156512696

ISBN-13: 9780156512695

Edition: 2nd 1955

Authors: Louis Hartz

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Hartz’s influential interpretation of american political thought since the Revolution. He contends that americanca gave rise to a new concept of a liberal society, a “liberal tradition” that has been central to our experience of events both at home and abroad. New Introduction by Tom Wicker; Index.

Book details

List price: $20.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1955
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 7/29/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 348
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Louis Hartz (1919-1986) was professor of government at Harvard University until he retired in 1974. He was a prominent political scientist and proponent of American exceptionalism.



The Liberal Tradition in America


Preface



Feudalism and the American Experience



Revolution in a New World



America's "Social Revolution"



The Emergence of Democracy



The Whig Dilemma



The American Democrat: Hercules and Hamlet



The Feudal Dream of the South



The Reactionary Enlightenment



The Crusade Against "Free Society"



The American World of Horatio Alger



The New Whiggery: Democratic Capitalism



Progressives and Socialists



Depression and World Involvement



The New Deal



America and the World


Notes and Index


Index