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Pragmatism, politics, and perversity democracy and the American party battle /

Esposito, Joseph L., 1941-

Pragmatism, politics, and perversity democracy and the American party battle / [electronic resource] : Joseph L. Esposito. - Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2012. - xxv, 363 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Introduction -- Pragmatism and the democracy project -- Pragmatic political history -- A foundation on a serbonian bog -- Market state and nation state -- A judiciary for the market state -- Rogue justice -- Too much democracy -- Judicial review as ideology -- Religion and race -- Old wine in new bottles -- Rewriting history -- The great Kansas charade -- Free labor and the economics of slavery -- Civil War -- Disorder in the court -- Understanding the party battle -- Free speech in the age of the big megaphone.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Political parties--History.--United States
Democracy--United States.
Pragmatism--History.


United States--Politics and government.


Electronic books.

JK2265 / .E77 2012

324.273

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