Imagining deliberative democracy in the early American republic / Sandra M. Gustafson.

Author/creator Gustafson, Sandra M.
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Descriptionx, 271 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Deliberative democracy--United States.
United States--Politics and government. --1815-1861.
United States--History. --1815-1861.

Contents Deliberation: a very brief history -- The idea of deliberation -- Deliberation and democracy in the early American republic -- Whitman, Dewey, and the place of the arts -- Theories of republicanism and deliberative democracy -- Modern republicanism in the Atlantic world -- The eloquence of modern republicanism -- The view from Bunker Hill -- Writing the modern republic -- Models of ancient eloquence -- Res publica redivivus -- Eloquent Shakespeare -- Arguing with the Bible -- The politics and aesthetics of deliberation -- The rise of literary oratory -- Daniel Webster's genuine word -- The frontier humor of David Crockett -- Prophesying the multiracial republic -- Democracy and the "three races" -- Beyond the white Christian republic -- Reasoning with David Walker -- Listening to the wisdom of babes -- Toward multiracial deliberations -- Deliberative fictions -- Failures of deliberation -- Cooper's trials -- How to read deliberatively -- Democratic hermeneutics -- The great American deliberative novel -- Protest at Mashpee -- Property matters -- Conclusion: deliberative democracy past and future.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010039657
ISBN9780226311296 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226311295 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard identifier# 40019383302