Liberty and equality : the American conversation

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"This book summarizes American history as told through ideas rather than events. Adopting Tocqueville's binary view of America's political tradition--liberty and equality--Seagrave has provided rea...

"This book summarizes American history as told through ideas rather than events. Adopting Tocqueville's binary view of America's political tradition--liberty and equality--Seagrave has provided readers with a penetrating analysis of these two core principles in relation to constitutional principles, religion, and race. To underscore that an understanding of the 230-year history of American political thought is crucial to the well-being of our body politic, the work gathers key primary readings and six original essays by notable scholars"--Provided bypublisher.

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