Democratic vistas [electronic resource] : reflections on the life of American democracy / Jedediah Purdy, editor ; Anthony T. Kronman and Cynthia Farrar advisory editors.
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- 9780300130485
- 320.973 23
- JK1726 .D498 2004
"The essays in this volume began as the Tercentennial DeVane Lectures at Yale University"--Introduction.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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