Pragmatism, politics, and perversity [electronic resource] : democracy and the American party battle / Joseph L. Esposito.
Material type: TextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2012.Description: xxv, 363 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 324.273 23
- JK2265 .E77 2012eb
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.
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