TY - BOOK AU - Purdy,Jedediah AU - Kronman,Anthony T. AU - Farrar,Cynthia TI - Democratic vistas: reflections on the life of American democracy SN - 0300102569 (alk. paper) AV - JK1726 .D498 2004eb U1 - 320.973 22 PY - 2004/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Democracy KW - United States KW - Démocratie KW - États-Unis KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Government KW - National KW - bisacsh KW - პოლიტიკა KW - Electronic books N1 - "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 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=188129 ER -