Synopsis
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Mid-19th-century patterns of individualism
The doctrines of the American democratic faith
Christianity & the democratic faith
Emerson & Thoreau
Democracy & Catholicism in the middle period
Melville, critic of mid-19th-century beliefs
Nationalism, determinism & the democratic faith
The pre-Sumter symbolism of the democratic faith
A footnote on John C. Calhoun
The Civil War & the American democratic faith
Whitman & the Civil War
The recreation of the American union 1865-1917
The gospel of wealth of the gilded age
The science of man
The religion of humanity
The religion of humanity at work
The evolution of the philosophy of the general welfare state
William Graham Sumner, critic of the positive state
Economic theory & the positive state
The social gospel & the salvation of society
The gospel of wealth & constitutional law
Josiah Royce reinterprets democracy & Christianity
The significance of the frontier & of the law of entropy
A new science & a new philosophy
The free individual in the Progressive Era
The "mission of America" in the Progressive Era
The great crusade & after
The fundamental law & the great liberation, 1918-41
The doctrine of the free individual in the middle period of the 20th century
Nationalism, symbols & the mission of America
The fundamental law after Hiroshima
References
Bibliography
Index
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About the Author
briel /f Ralph /i Henry
Review
"[This] book challenges the reader to trace with the authors the shifting intellectual terrain of almost two centuries of democratic thought and action, indeed, about the relationship between thought and action....The richness and complexity of the subject matter and of the sources they rely on give this book a quality rarely matched....[It] ably synthesizes a large body of material and is impressive in its scope...."-Quarterly Journal of Ideology
"ŬThis¨ book challenges the reader to trace with the authors the shifting intellectual terrain of almost two centuries of democratic thought and action, indeed, about the relationship between thought and action....The richness and complexity of the subject matter and of the sources they rely on give this book a quality rarely matched....ŬIt¨ ably synthesizes a large body of material and is impressive in its scope...."-Quarterly Journal of Ideology
?[This] book challenges the reader to trace with the authors the shifting intellectual terrain of almost two centuries of democratic thought and action, indeed, about the relationship between thought and action....The richness and complexity of the subject matter and of the sources they rely on give this book a quality rarely matched....[It] ably synthesizes a large body of material and is impressive in its scope....?-Quarterly Journal of Ideology
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