A tolerable anarchy
Subtitle: rebels, reactionaries, and the making of American freedom
By: by Jedediah Purdy.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781400044474
Subjects: Liberty -- Political aspects -- United States -- History; Liberty -- Social aspects -- United States -- History; Liberty -- Philosophy; National characteristics, American; United States -- Politics and government
Description: From the author of "For Common Things" comes a provocative look at the meaning of American freedom. Purdy works from the stories of individuals: Frederick Douglass urging Americans to extend freedom to slaves, Ralph Waldo Emerson arguing for self-fulfillment, and others.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The sensation of freedom; title: Declarations of independence; title: The search for civic dignity; title: War and its equivalents; title: Is freedom real?; title: American utopianism; title: The economics of 1776, and today; title: Freedom as wealth; title: Fragments of a free economy.