The Democratic Imagination in America : : Conversations with Our Past / / Russell L. Hanson.

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 print-...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1985
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 429
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Physical Description:1 online resource (492 p.)
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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