Lost Soul Amern PoliticsBasic Books, 1984 M12 18 - 409 pages The Lost Soul of American Politics is a provocative new interpretation of American political thought from the Founding Fathers to the Neo-Conservatives. Reassessing the motives and intentions of such great political thinkers as Madison, Thoreau, Lincoln, and Emerson, John P. Diggins shows how these men struggled to create an alliance between the politics of self-interest and a religious sense of moral responsibility-a tension that still troubles us today. |
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... become so democratized that it came to be regarded not as a dangerous " passion " but as everyone's right to pursue what Tocqueville would call " the doctrine of self - interest properly understood . " Now that ambition had become ...
... become so democratized that it came to be regarded not as a dangerous " passion " but as everyone's right to pursue what Tocqueville would call " the doctrine of self - interest properly understood . " Now that ambition had become ...
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... become one of power . " But to the Whigs the main threat to liberty came not from the power of property but from the power of the presi- dency . " Our Liberties Are In Danger , " shouted the New York Whig con- vention of 1834. " At this ...
... become one of power . " But to the Whigs the main threat to liberty came not from the power of property but from the power of the presi- dency . " Our Liberties Are In Danger , " shouted the New York Whig con- vention of 1834. " At this ...
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... becoming " extinct like chivalry " and that the American woman func- tions at her moral best outside the household ... become depend- ent upon machinery whose mysterious operations would be beyond the compre- hension and control of the ...
... becoming " extinct like chivalry " and that the American woman func- tions at her moral best outside the household ... become depend- ent upon machinery whose mysterious operations would be beyond the compre- hension and control of the ...
Contents
Whos Afraid of John Locke? | 18 |
From the Revolution to the Constitution | 48 |
John Adams the Federalist and the Refutation | 69 |
Copyright | |
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