Democratic vistas : reflections on the life of American democracy / Jedediah Purdy, editor ; Anthony T. Kronman and Cynthia Farrar, advisory editors.
Purdy, Jedediah, 1974-; Kronman, Anthony T.; Farrar, Cynthia.
2004
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Democratic vistas : reflections on the life of American democracy / Jedediah Purdy, editor ; Anthony T. Kronman and Cynthia Farrar, advisory editors.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2004]
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©2004
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9780300130485 (electronic bk.)
0300130481 (electronic bk.)
1281730645
9781281730640
0300102569
9780300102567
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1 online resource (vi, 282 pages)
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(OCoLC)182530157
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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.
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"The essays in this volume began as the Tercentennial DeVane Lectures at Yale University"--Introduction
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Purdy, Jedediah, 1974-
Kronman, Anthony T.
Farrar, Cynthia.
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.

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