Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1439173249
ISBN 13
9781439173244
Category
Government & Legislation
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Publication Year
2012
Publisher
Pages
288
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Description
Donated by Rhonda Rogers, retired Director of the Women's, Human Rights, and Young Workers department.
Biblio Notes
Introduction -- Part I. On utopianism. The tyranny of utopia ; Plato's Republic and the perfect society ; Thomas More's Utopia and radical egalitarianism ; Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan and the all-powerful state ; Karl Marx's Communist manifesto and the class struggle -- Part II. On Americanism. John Locke and the nature of man ; The influence of Locke on the founders ; Charles de Montesquieu and republican government ; The influence of Montesquieu on the framers ; Alexis de Tocqueville and Democracy in America -- Part III. On utopianism and Americanism. Post-constitutional America ; Ameritopia.
Number of Copies
1
