LEADER 03877nam 2200469 450 001 9910808727503321 005 20230126214855.0 010 $a0-19-026200-1 010 $a0-19-026199-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000971672 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4773360 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000971672 100 $a20170110h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe House of Truth $ea Washington political salon and the foundations of American liberalism /$fBrad Snyder 210 1$aNew York, New York :$cOxford University Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (825 pages) 311 $a0-19-026198-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aExpanding horizons -- 1727 Nineteenth Street -- The call of the moose -- The center of the universe -- Buddha -- The soldier's faith -- Temperamentally unfit -- Our founder -- Fighting Valentine's fight -- The house at war -- One man war -- Uniting the labor army -- The inquiry -- The wonderful one -- The H/T cannot be re-constituted -- Harvard's dangerous men -- Touched with fire -- Protestant of Nordic stock -- We live by symbols -- The 1924 election and the basic issues of liberalism -- Eloquence may set fire to reason -- A fly on an elephant -- No ordinary case -- This world cares more for red than for black -- A damn poor psychologist -- The happy warrior -- Freedom for the thought that we hate -- America's shrine for political democracy -- The best men -- A very great beginning -- The hard case has melted. 330 2 $a"Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose campaign. They self-mockingly called the 19th Street row house in which they congregated the 'House of Truth,' playing off the lively dinner discussions with frequent guest (and neighbor) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. about life's verities. Lippmann and Frankfurter were house-mates, and their frequent guests included not merely Holmes but Louis Brandeis, Herbert Hoover, Louis Croly--founder of the New Republic--and the sculptor (and sometime Klansman) Gutzon Borglum, later the creator of the Mount Rushmore monument. Weaving together the stories and trajectories of these varied, fascinating, combative, and sometimes contradictory figures, Brad Snyder shows how their thinking about government and policy shifted from a firm belief in progressivism--the belief that the government should protect its workers and regulate monopolies--into what we call liberalism--the belief that government can improve citizens' lives without abridging their civil liberties and, eventually, civil rights. Holmes replaced Roosevelt in their affections and aspirations. His famous dissents from 1919 onward showed how the Due Process clause could protect not just business but equality under the law, revealing how a generally conservative and reactionary Supreme Court might embrace, even initiate, political and social reform. Across the years, from 1912 until the start of the New Deal in 1933, the remarkable group of individuals associated with the House of Truth debated the future of America"--Provided by publisher. 606 $aSalons$zWashington (D.C.)$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitical culture$zWashington (D.C.)$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aWashington (D.C.)$xPolitics and government$y20th century 607 $aWashington (D.C.)$xIntellectual life$y20th century 607 $aWashington (D.C.)$xSocial life and customs$y20th century 615 0$aSalons$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory 676 $a975.3/04 700 $aSnyder$b Brad$01599171 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808727503321 996 $aThe House of Truth$93921746 997 $aUNINA