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- catalog abstract "Outgrowth of the Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History which the author gave at Johns Hopkins University in April, 1959.".
- catalog contributor b1451542.
- catalog coverage "United States Foreign relations 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "United States History Philosophy.".
- catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 20th century.".
- catalog created "1960.".
- catalog date "1960".
- catalog date "1960.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1960.".
- catalog description "I. The purpose of America : equality in freedom. The contemporary crisis ; The reality of the national purpose ; The American experience ; Equality in freedom ; The American Revolution ; The threefold purpose ; The denial -- II. The first crisis (1890-1940) A. Impairment of mobility at home: Impairment of mobility ; The economic crisis of 1929 ; Alienation ; Conformity ; Utopianism, pessimism, and pragmatism ; Social reform ; The intervention of government ; The restoration of vertical mobility -- B. Impairment of mobility abroad. Territorial expansion ; The American mission abroad ; The Wilsonian crusade ; The denial -- III. The contemporary crisis abroad. A. Restoration (1947-1953). Fascism and the Second World War ; "The deadly hiatus" ; Restoration ; The Korean and Chinese dilemmas -- B. The crisis of perplexity. McCarthyism ; Communism ; Atomic power ; Free-world order ; Foreign aid and liberation -- IV. The contemporary crisis at home. A. The social crisis : hedonism of the status quo. The decline of the public realm ; A society of waste ; The decline of objective standards of excellence ; The symptoms of malaise ; The transformation of equality in freedom -- B. The political crisis : the paradoxes of democratic government. The triumph of the majority ; Government by committee and by public opinion ; The paradox of the thwarted majority ; The new feudalism : the paradox of thwarted government -- V. What is to be done? What is not to be done ; The new mobility and the new frontiers ; The global frontier as the condition for survival ; The restoration of democratic government and the defense of freedom -- VI. Appendixes. The last years of our greatness? ; The great betrayal ; Epistle to the Columbians on the meaning of morality.".
- catalog description "Outgrowth of the Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History which the author gave at Johns Hopkins University in April, 1959.".
- catalog extent "359 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Purpose of American politics.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Purpose of American politics.".
- catalog issued "1960".
- catalog issued "1960.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, Knopf,".
- catalog relation "Purpose of American politics.".
- catalog spatial "United States Foreign relations 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States History Philosophy.".
- catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 20th century.".
- catalog subject "973.91".
- catalog subject "E744 .M69".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. The purpose of America : equality in freedom. The contemporary crisis ; The reality of the national purpose ; The American experience ; Equality in freedom ; The American Revolution ; The threefold purpose ; The denial -- II. The first crisis (1890-1940) A. Impairment of mobility at home: Impairment of mobility ; The economic crisis of 1929 ; Alienation ; Conformity ; Utopianism, pessimism, and pragmatism ; Social reform ; The intervention of government ; The restoration of vertical mobility -- B. Impairment of mobility abroad. Territorial expansion ; The American mission abroad ; The Wilsonian crusade ; The denial -- III. The contemporary crisis abroad. A. Restoration (1947-1953). Fascism and the Second World War ; "The deadly hiatus" ; Restoration ; The Korean and Chinese dilemmas -- B. The crisis of perplexity. McCarthyism ; Communism ; Atomic power ; Free-world order ; Foreign aid and liberation -- IV. The contemporary crisis at home. A. The social crisis : hedonism of the status quo. The decline of the public realm ; A society of waste ; The decline of objective standards of excellence ; The symptoms of malaise ; The transformation of equality in freedom -- B. The political crisis : the paradoxes of democratic government. The triumph of the majority ; Government by committee and by public opinion ; The paradox of the thwarted majority ; The new feudalism : the paradox of thwarted government -- V. What is to be done? What is not to be done ; The new mobility and the new frontiers ; The global frontier as the condition for survival ; The restoration of democratic government and the defense of freedom -- VI. Appendixes. The last years of our greatness? ; The great betrayal ; Epistle to the Columbians on the meaning of morality.".
- catalog title "The purpose of American politics.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".