Democratic vistas [electronic resource] : reflections on the life of American democracy / Jedediah Purdy, editor ; Anthony T. Kronman and Cynthia Farrar, advisory editors.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 282 p.)ISBN:- 0300102569 (alk. paper)
- 9780300102567 (alk. paper)
- 9780300130485 (electronic bk.)
- 0300130481 (electronic bk.)
- 320.973 22
- JK1726 .D498 2004eb
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"The essays in this volume began as the Tercentennial DeVane Lectures at Yale University"--Introd.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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