Title: In quest of freedom :
Authors: Mason, Alpheus Thomas,; Leach, Richard H.; Leach, Richard H.,
Date: 1959
Publisher: Prentice-Hall,
Physical description: viii, 568 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: J
Contents: Tap roots of freedom -- Struggle for freedom in the Bible commonwealth -- Forging independence -- Revolutionary ideas on the anvil of experience -- Tightening the bonds of union -- The Constitution criticized, explained and endorsed -- Stress on national power: the Hamiltonians -- Stress on fundamental rights: the Jeffersonians -- The base of freedom explained -- Andrew Jackson and the common man -- The Transcendentalists and the uncommon man -- Slavery and the nature of the Union -- The Union tested and proved -- Political democracy or economic absolutism -- The drive for social justice -- Resistance from the Supreme Court -- Pipe dreams and disillusionment -- Freedom redefined: the New Deal -- Inevitable conflict -- Welfare capitalism: opportunity and delusion -- Freedom and survival.
Subject headings (LCSH): Political science--United States--History.; United States--Politics and government.