The liberal tradition in America : an interpretation of american political thought since the revolution /
Louis Hartz ; with an introduction by Tom Wicker.
- San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1991
- xvi, 329 p. ; 20 cm.
Reprint, with new introd. Originally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, 1955.
Feudalism and the american experience, 1. -- The concept of a liberal society, 3. -- Revolution in a new world, 33. -- The perspectives of 1776, 35. -- America's "Social revolution", 67. -- The emergence of democracy, 89. -- The whig dilemma, 89. -- The american democrat : Hercules and Hamlet, 114. -- The ractionary enlightenment, 145. -- The crusade against "Free Society", 178. -- The American Word of Horatio Alger, 201. -- The new whiggery : Democratic capitalism, 203. -- Progressives and socilists, 228. -- Depression and world involvement, 257. -- The new deal, 259. -- America and the world, 284
Views American democracy, revolution, and capitalism in the light of Western history.