THE AMERICAN POLITICAL TRADITION AND THE MEN WHO MADE IT

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Format 15×22 cm, stron XV+378+XVIII, płócienna okładka z obwolutą.

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Historia amerykańskiej myśli politycznej i jej twórców. Książka w języku angielskim.

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Nota wydawnicza: A witty and urbane book, this is an exposition of the American political creed through biographical sketches of important statesmen—from the authors of the federal constitution to Franklin Roosevelt.

Hofstadter deals with American poli-tics as the expression of a continuous tradition to which all the leading figures conform in a greater or lesser degree. He finds in tradition a source of contrariness: that is, the tradition impels individuals to play roles they would not of themselves assume. Thus Lincoln, usually presented as the embodiment of government, an instrument of morality, is in this volume described as the practical politician whose position derives from continual compromise. Hofstadter contends that belief in the capitalistic ethos was healthy and realistic for men who lived in a mobile expanding economy, but that the same belief has become a mental illness today. He deprecates the `national nostalgia’ for the lost free enterprise and urges that a new theology of centralized planning for modern corporate society be adopted. His analysis of Wilson’s pre-occupation with the recherche du temps perdu is an autopsy of the Progressive mind.

Spis treści:

  • I. The Founding Fathers: an Age of Realism
  • II. Thomas Jefferson: the Aristocrat as Democrat
  • III. Andrew Jackson and the Rise of Liberal Capitalism
  • IV. John C. Calhoun: the Marx of the Master Class
  • V. Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
  • VI. Wendell Phillips: the Patrician as Agitator
  • VII. The Spoilsmen: an Age of Cynicism
  • VIII. William Jennings Bryan: the Democrat as Revivalist
  • IX. Theodore Roosevelt: the Conservative as Progressive
  • X. Woodrow Wilson: the Conservative as Liberal
  • XI. Herbert Hoover and the Crisis of American Individualism
  • XII. Franklin D. Roosevelt: the Patrician as Opportunist
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
  • INDEX
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