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Democratic vistas : reflections on the life of American democracy / Jedediah Purdy, editor ; Anthony T. Kronman and Cynthia Farrar, advisory editors.
| Other author | Purdy, Jedediah, 1974- |
| Other author | Kronman, Anthony T. |
| Other author | Farrar, Cynthia. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2004. |
| Description | vi, 282 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The democratic soul / Anthony T. Kronman -- Lincoln and Whitman as representative Americans / David Bromwich -- Public emblem, private realm: family and polity in the United States / Nancy F. Cott -- Can religion tolerate democracy? (And vice versa?) / Stephen L. Carter -- Taking democracy to school / Richard H. Brodhead -- The misuse of numbers: audits, quantification, and the obfuscation of politics / James C. Scott, with Matthew A. Light -- Neither capitalist nor American: the democracy as social movement / Michael Denning -- Democracy and the market / Richard C. Levin -- Democracy and distribution / Ian Shapiro -- Democracy and foreign policy / John Lewis Gaddis -- Dinner with democracy / Cynthia Farrar -- American democracy and the origins of the biomedical revolution / Joan A. Steitz -- Computers and democracy / David Gelernter. |
| General note | "The essays in this volume began as the Tercentennial DeVane Lectures at Yale University"--Introduction. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2003020521 |
| ISBN | 0300102569 (alk. paper) |