The Culture of Immodesty in American Life and Politics [electronic resource] : The Modest Republic /
Federici, M.editor.
Gamble, R.editor.
Mitchell, M.editor.
By identifying and illustrating aspects of American culture that are out of sync with the modest republicanism that gave rise to the United States in the late eighteenth century, the contributors to this volume expose the vulgarity and excess of American culture.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The messianic hoax and the quest for empire / Richard M. Gamble -- The immodesty of American empire: a constitutionalist perspective on neo-Jacobin universalism / Claes G. Ryn -- Judicial power and modest republicanism / Michael P. Federici -- Presidential power in a modest republic / Gary L. Gregg -- The land of limitless possibilities: Ronald Reagan, progress, technology, and the modest republic / Justin Garrison -- Banking and the modest republic / Brian Patrick Mitchell -- The ideology of growth and self-interest / Ralph Ancil -- Human scale and the modest republic / Mark T. Mitchell -- The therapeutic state and the forgotten work of culture / Jeremy Beer -- Hope in the midst of ruin: Bruce Springsteen's (modest) urban gothic / Greg Butler -- The modest college and the imperial university / Robert Koons -- Education as a social problem: why it can't cure our ills / Jeffrey Polet -- Immodest faith for a modest republic / Darryl Hart.
By identifying and illustrating aspects of American culture that are out of sync with the modest republicanism that gave rise to the United States in the late eighteenth century, the contributors to this volume expose the vulgarity and excess of American culture.
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