The Devils We Know /

"Is there an American culture? Certainly, says James Morone. Americans are fighting over it now. They have been fighting over it since the first Puritan stepped ashore. Americans hate government (no national health insurance!) and call for more of it (lock 'em up!). They prize democracy (p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Morone, James A., 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conflict.
Social conditions.
Politics and government.
Political culture.
National characteristics, American.
Cultural pluralism.
HISTORY > United States > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
Diversite culturelle > États-Unis.
Social conflict > United States.
Cultural pluralism > United States.
Political culture > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
United States > Politics and government.
United States > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Is there an American political culture
  • Is there an American political culture?
  • John Stuart Mill and American liberalism
  • The bias in American politics: rationing health care in a weak state
  • Huckleberry Finn's hard racial lesson
  • Part 2. Wealth and power
  • What happened to populism? The lost causes of William Jennings Bryan
  • Good for nothing: failure in America
  • An empire of greed
  • The wages of inequality
  • Part 3. Morals and politics
  • The corrosive politics of virtue
  • Enemies of the people: the moral dimension to public health
  • How the personal becomes political: prohibitions, public health, and obesity
  • The curious role of argument in the history of health reform
  • A bipartisan surprise? Obamacare in the states
  • Who are we? Us and them and the Boston Marathon bombing.

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