Forty years ago, in "The Liberal Tradition in America", Louis Hartz concluded that American politics were based on a broad liberal consensus made possible by a unique American historical experience. Hartz's interpretation is re-evaluated in this book, which discusses significant movements in US history, especially Puritanism and republicanism's early contribution to the Revolution and the Constitution, and sets out to show that the liberal tradition is richer and more complex than Hartz and most contemporary theorists have admitted. In addition to broad discussions of major figures, particularly Lincoln, in over 300 years of political thought, the book touches on modern feminism and conservatism, multiculturalism, postmodernism, rights-based liberalism, and social democracy.
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978-0-8133-0647-6 (9780813306476)
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The role of liberalism in American politics; the ambiguous legacy of puritanism; John Locke and the theory of liberal constitutionalism; liberalism, republicanism and revolution; liberalism, republicanism and the Constitution; defining the constitutional text and the emergence of party politics; some notes on Jacksonian democracy; abolition and the crisis of liberalism; laissez-faire conservatism and the legitimation of corporate capitalism; the dilemmas of populist reform; the problem of progressivism; the new deal and the apotheosis of reform; liberalism in search of new directions; race, gender, difference and equality; liberalism in retreat - the conservative critique; problems of liberalism - rights, economy, community and the state.
