Pragmatism, politics, and perversity
Subtitle: democracy and the American party battle
By: Joseph L. Esposito
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780739173633; 9780739173640
Subjects: Politics and government; Pragmatism; Political parties; Democracy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Pragmatism and the democracy project; title: Pragmatic political history; title: A foundation on a serbonian bog; title: Market state and nation state; title: A judiciary for the market state; title: Rogue justice; title: Too much democracy; title: Judicial review as ideology; title: Religion and race; title: Old wine in new bottles; title: Rewriting history; title: The great Kansas charade; title: Free labor and the economics of slavery; title: Civil War; title: Disorder in the court; title: Understanding the party battle; title: Free speech in the age of the big megaphone.