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A tolerable anarchy : rebels, reactionaries, and the making of American freedom / Jedediah Purdy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Purdy, Jedediah, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liberty--Political aspects--United States--History.
- Liberty.
- Liberty--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Liberty--Philosophy.
- National characteristics, American.
- Liberty--Social aspects.
- History.
- Liberty--Political aspects.
- United States--Politics and government.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 294 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
- Summary:
- From the author of "For Common Things" comes a provocative look at the meaning of American freedom. Purdy works from the stories of individuals: Frederick Douglass urging Americans to extend freedom to slaves, Ralph Waldo Emerson arguing for self-fulfillment, and others.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The sensation of freedom
- Declarations of independence
- The search for civic dignity
- War and its equivalents
- Is freedom empty? Citizenship, sodomy, and the meaning of life
- American utopias
- The economics of 1776, and today
- The value of freedom
- Fragments of a free economy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-283) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781400044474
- 1400044472
- OCLC:
- 232980271
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