TY - BOOK AU - Esposito,Joseph L. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Pragmatism, politics, and perversity: democracy and the American party battle AV - JK2265 .E77 2012 U1 - 324.273 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Lanham, Md. PB - Lexington Books KW - Political parties KW - United States KW - History KW - Democracy KW - Pragmatism KW - Politics and government KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=950446 ER -