Democratic vistas  reflections on the life of American democracy /  [electronic resource] : 
Jedediah Purdy, editor ; Anthony T. Kronman and Cynthia Farrar, advisory editors. 
 -  Yale University Press,  c2004. 
 - 1 online resource (vi, 282 p.) 
<br/><br/> "The essays in this volume began as the Tercentennial DeVane Lectures at Yale University"--Introd. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>The democratic soul / Anthony T. Kronman -- Lincoln and Whitman as representative Americans / David Bromwich -- Public emblem, private realm: family and polity in the United States / Nancy F. Cott -- Can religion tolerate democracy? (And vice versa?) / Stephen L. Carter -- Taking democracy to school / Richard H. Brodhead -- The misuse of numbers: audits, quantification, and the obfuscation of politics / James C. Scott, with Matthew A. Light -- Neither capitalist nor American: the democracy as social movement / Michael Denning -- Democracy and the market / Richard C. Levin -- Democracy and distribution / Ian Shapiro -- Democracy and foreign policy / John Lewis Gaddis -- Dinner with democracy / Cynthia Farrar -- American democracy and the origins of the biomedical revolution / Joan A. Steitz -- Computers and democracy / David Gelernter. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0300102569 (alk. paper) 9780300102567 (alk. paper) 9780300130485 (electronic bk.) 0300130481 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Democracy--United States.<br/>Démocratie--États-Unis.<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE--Government--National.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>პოლიტიკა 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JK1726  / .D498 2004eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.973 
<br/><br/><label>Universal Decimal Class. No.: </label>32(73)