The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics
One of our most eminent historians reminds us of the commanding role party politics has played in America's enduring struggle against economic inequality.There are two keys to unlocking the secrets of American politics and American political history.” So begins The Politicians & the Egalitarians, Princeton historian Sean Wilentz's bold new work of history.First, America is built on an egalitarian tradition. At the nation's founding, Americans believed that extremes of wealth and want would destroy their revolutionary experiment in republican government. Ever since, that idea has shaped national political conflict and scored major egalitar…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-28501-7
- EAN: 9780393285017
- Produktnummer: 34248240
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'274 KB
Über den Autor
Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University and author of the Bancroft Prize-winning The Rise of American Democracy, Bob Dylan in America, and many other works. He is completing his next book, No Property in Man, on slavery, antislavery, and the Constitution, based on his Nathan I. Huggins Lectures delivered at Harvard in 2015.
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