Bibliograph

A tolerable anarchy, rebels, reactionaries, and the making of American freedom, Jedediah Purdy

Type

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A tolerable anarchy, rebels, reactionaries, and the making of American freedom, Jedediah Purdy

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-283) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A tolerable anarchy

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

232980271

Responsibility statement

Jedediah Purdy

Sub title

rebels, reactionaries, and the making of American freedom

Summary

From the author of "For Common Things" comes a provocative look at the meaning of American freedom. Purdy works from the stories of individuals: Frederick Douglass urging Americans to extend freedom to slaves, Ralph Waldo Emerson arguing for self-fulfillment, and others

Table Of Contents

Introduction: The sensation of freedom -- Declarations of independence -- The search for civic dignity -- War and its equivalents -- Is freedom empty? Citizenship, sodomy, and the meaning of life -- American utopias -- The economics of 1776, and today -- The value of freedom -- Fragments of a free economy

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