Debating the American state : liberal anxieties and the new leviathan, 1930-1970

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Kornhauser, Anne Mira, 1964-

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Through a broad and unusual cast of characters-from American social scientists and legal academics, to German refugee intellectuals, to the philosopher John Rawls-Debating the American State shows ...

Through a broad and unusual cast of characters-from American social scientists and legal academics, to German refugee intellectuals, to the philosopher John Rawls-Debating the American State shows that the "leviathan" administrative state was never given a proper and principled justification by the liberals who built and supported it.

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