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A Government Out of Sight - The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
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A Government Out of Sight - The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
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While it is obvious that America's state and local governments were
consistently active during the nineteenth century, a period
dominated by laissez-faire, political historians of
twentieth-century America have assumed that the national government
did very little during this period. A Government Out of Sight
challenges this premise, chronicling the ways in which the national
government intervened powerfully in the lives of nineteenth-century
Americans through the law, subsidies, and the use of third parties
(including state and local governments), while avoiding
bureaucracy. Americans have always turned to the national
government - especially for economic development and expansion -
and in the nineteenth century even those who argued for a small,
nonintrusive central government demanded that the national
government expand its authority to meet the nation's challenges. In
revising our understanding of the ways in which Americans turned to
the national government throughout this period, this study
fundamentally alters our perspective on American political
development in the twentieth century, shedding light on
contemporary debates between progressives and conservatives about
the proper size of government and government programs and subsidies
that even today remain 'out of sight'.
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