Pragmatism, politics, and perversity [electronic resource] : democracy and the American party battle / Joseph L. Esposito.

By: Esposito, Joseph L, 1941-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2012Description: xxv, 363 p. : illISBN: 9780739173640 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Political parties -- United States -- History | Democracy -- United States | Pragmatism -- History | United States -- Politics and governmentGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 324.273 LOC classification: JK2265 | .E77 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- Pragmatism and the democracy project -- Pragmatic political history -- A foundation on a serbonian bog -- Market state and nation state -- A judiciary for the market state -- Rogue justice -- Too much democracy -- Judicial review as ideology -- Religion and race -- Old wine in new bottles -- Rewriting history -- The great Kansas charade -- Free labor and the economics of slavery -- Civil War -- Disorder in the court -- Understanding the party battle -- Free speech in the age of the big megaphone.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Introduction -- Pragmatism and the democracy project -- Pragmatic political history -- A foundation on a serbonian bog -- Market state and nation state -- A judiciary for the market state -- Rogue justice -- Too much democracy -- Judicial review as ideology -- Religion and race -- Old wine in new bottles -- Rewriting history -- The great Kansas charade -- Free labor and the economics of slavery -- Civil War -- Disorder in the court -- Understanding the party battle -- Free speech in the age of the big megaphone.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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