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The Shaping of American Liberalism (Paperback, 74th Ed.)
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The Shaping of American Liberalism (Paperback, 74th Ed.)
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In "The Liberal Tradition in America" (1955), Louis Hartz first put
forth his thesis that the American political tradition derives
essentially from consensual liberal principles. The many detractors
to this theory include Bernard Bailyn, who argued that preliberal,
republican values initially held sway in eighteenth-century
American politics. In "The Shaping of American Liberalism," David
Ericson offers an innovative reinterpretation of both positions by
redefining the "terms" of the argument.
Focusing on three critical debates in American history--the debate
between Anti-Federalists and Federalists over the ratification of
the Constitution; the debate between the national republicans and
the states-rights republicans over the nullification of the tariff;
and the Lincoln-Douglas debates over slavery and pluralist
democracy--Ericson shows that republicanism, rather than being
opposed to liberalism, is in fact an offshoot of it. His
descriptions of republicanism and pluralism represent the poles of
an evolving tradition of liberal ideas in America: the former
championing the claims of the public sphere, general welfare, and
civic virtue; the latter protecting the rights of the individual to
liberty, property, and privacy.
Republicanism and pluralism are therefore more properly understood
as two sets of competing ideas that evolved from common roots.
Ericson concludes that although republican themes persist in
American politics, the profound transformations brought about by
the Civil War made the ascendancy of pluralism virtually
inevitable.
This highly original discussion of the relation between liberalism
and republicanism--the central concern of much of the
recentscholarship in American political thought--will be important
reading for those interested in American politics, history, and
culture.
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