Democratic vistas : reflections on the life of American democracy /
In this thought-provoking collection, leading scholars explore democracy in the United States from a sweeping variety of perspectives. The essays bring American democracy into fresh focus, complete with its idealism, its moral greatness, its disappointments and its contradictions.
| Други автори: | Purdy, Jedediah, 1974-, Kronman, Anthony T., Farrar, Cynthia. |
|---|---|
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New Haven :
Yale University Press,
℗♭2004.
|
| Предмети: | |
| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=188129 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Democratic vistas. |
Съдържание:
- The democratic soul / Anthony T. Kronman
- Lincoln and Whitman as representative Americans / David Bromwich
- Public emblem, private realm: family and polity in the United States / Nancy F. Cott
- Can religion tolerate democracy? (And vice versa?) / Stephen L. Carter
- Taking democracy to school / Richard H. Brodhead
- The misuse of numbers: audits, quantification, and the obfuscation of politics / James C. Scott, with Matthew A. Light
- Neither capitalist nor American: the democracy as social movement / Michael Denning
- Democracy and the market / Richard C. Levin
- Democracy and distribution / Ian Shapiro
- Democracy and foreign policy / John Lewis Gaddis
- Dinner with democracy / Cynthia Farrar
- American democracy and the origins of the biomedical revolution / Joan A. Steitz
- Computers and democracy / David Gelernter.