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Author Esposito, Joseph L., 1941-

Title Pragmatism, politics, and perversity [electronic resource] : democracy and the American party battle / Joseph L. Esposito.

Imprint Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2012.

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Description xxv, 363 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface -- Introduction -- Pragmatism and the democracy project -- Pragmatic political history -- A foundation on a serbonian bog -- Market state and nation state -- A judiciary for the market state -- Rogue justice -- Too much democracy -- Judicial review as ideology -- Religion and race -- Old wine in new bottles -- Rewriting history -- The great Kansas charade -- Free labor and the economics of slavery -- Civil War -- Disorder in the court -- Understanding the party battle -- Free speech in the age of the big megaphone.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Political parties -- United States -- History.
Democracy -- United States.
Pragmatism -- History.
United States -- Politics and government.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780739173633 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739173640 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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