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Author Sehat, David.

Title The Jefferson rule : how the founding fathers became infallible and our politics inflexible / David Sehat.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.2 Se41j 2015    ---  Available
1 copy being processed for Axe Acquisitions Order.
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description viii, 308 pages ; 25 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The quest for unanimity -- Specters of fracture -- Conservative intentions -- The interregnum -- A moral and emotional purpose -- The montage effect -- Crackpot theories -- This is America!
Summary Discusses how people completely polarized in their views on government all cite the Founding Fathers in defense of their policies and explains why their arguments are out of context and do not make sense within contemporary concerns.
Subject Political culture -- United States.
Founding Fathers of the United States.
Collective memory -- Political aspects -- United States.
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
ISBN 9781476779775 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1476779775 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781476779782 (trade paper ; alk. paper)
1476779783 (trade paper ; alk. paper)
9781476779799 (ebook)

 
    
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