02851nam 2200649Ia 450 991045162740332120200520144314.00-8078-8507-X0-8078-8508-8(CKB)1000000000487680(EBL)361353(OCoLC)476190273(SSID)ssj0000776887(PQKBManifestationID)12347098(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000776887(PQKBWorkID)10747270(PQKB)10408317(SSID)ssj0000102245(PQKBManifestationID)11127604(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102245(PQKBWorkID)10049896(PQKB)11215051(MiAaPQ)EBC361353(Au-PeEL)EBL361353(CaPaEBR)ebr10273390(CaONFJC)MIL930069(EXLCZ)99100000000048768020070413d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican liberalism[electronic resource] an interpretation for our time /John McGowanChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20071 online resource (282 p.)H. Eugene & Lillian Youngs LehmanDescription based upon print version of record.0-8078-6180-4 0-8078-3171-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: America at the Crossroads; BOOK ONE: LIBERALISM: PRINCIPLES AND VALUES; BOOK TWO: LIBERALISM'S CRITICS; BOOK THREE: HISTORICAL INTERLUDE; BOOK FOUR: DEMOCRACY; CONCLUSION: Liberal versus Illiberal Democracy; APPENDIX: Relevant Facts and Figures; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index;Americans live in a liberal democracy. Yet, although democracy is widely touted today, liberalism is scorned by both the right and the left. The United States stands poised between its liberal democratic tradition and the illiberal alternatives of liberalism's critics. In an engaging and informative discussion, McGowan offers a ringing endorsement of American liberalism's basic principles, values, and commitments. He explains that the liberalism of the founders distributed power widely in order to limit the power any one entity could exercise over others. Their aim was to provide for all an efH. Eugene & Lillian Youngs LehmanLiberalismUnited StatesUnited StatesPolitics and government2001-2009Electronic books.Liberalism320.510973McGowan John1953-223640MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451627403321American liberalism1977987UNINA