New Republic A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century

Name: New Republic A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780300104295

ISBN-10: 0300104294

ISBN-13: 9780300104295

Edition: 2004

Authors: John Lukacs

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In A New Republic, one of America’s most respected historians offers a major statement on the nature of our political system and a critical look at the underpinnings of our society. American democracy, says John Lukacs, has been transformed from an exercise in individual freedom and opportunity to a bureaucratic system created by and for the dominance of special groups. His book, first published in 1984 as Outgrowing Democracy, is now reissued with a new introduction, in which Lukacs explains his methodology, and a new final chapter, which sums up Lukacs’s thoughts on American democracy today. Reviews of the earlier edition “A rich, subtle, and often ingenious argument . . . an eloquent,…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 10/11/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.91" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

John Lukacs is the author of more than twenty books on history.




The second century



Tocqueville reversed



The automobile century : the material development of American life



The leap across the sea : the development of an American nation



The bourgeois interlude : the half-century when American civilization was urban and urbane



The two empires : the passing of the Anglo-American age in the history of the world



The elective monarchy : the degeneration of popular democracy to a publicity contest



Mutations of minds and morals : the transformations of American thinking



Inheritances and prospects : the passage from a democratic order to a bureaucratic state



The third century : dictatress of the world