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Book SynopsisRussell Hanson discovers in the history of democratic rhetoric in the United States a series of essential contests" over the meaning of democracy that have occurred in periods of political and socio-economic change. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previo
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*PROLOGUE, pg. 1*CHAPTER ONE. The Rhetoric of Democracy, pg. 22*CHAPTER TWO. Republican Rhetoric in the Founding Period, pg. 54*CHAPTER THREE. Democratic Republicanism in the United States, pg. 92*CHAPTER FOUR. Jacksonian Democracy, pg. 121*CHAPTER FIVE. Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War, pg. 155*CHAPTER SIX. The Triumph of Conservatism, pg. 183*CHAPTER SEVEN. Direct Democracy and the Illusion of Fulfillment, pg. 223*CHAPTER EIGHT. Democratic Consumerism, pg. 257*CHAPTER NINE. The Eclipse of Liberal Democracy, pg. 293*CHAPTER TEN. The Functionalization of Discourse, pg. 329*CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Crisis of Liberal Democracy, pg. 362*CHAPTER TWELVE. History and Liberation, pg. 402*REFERENCES, pg. 433*INDEX, pg. 461
