A wonderful edition.

The author blames American's long-standing mistrust of government on a misreading of history, and a fundamental misunderstanding of the Founding Fathers.

The author blames American's long-standing mistrust of government on a misreading of history, and a fundamental misunderstanding of the Founding Fathers.

Ruth Yeazell's essay is a mesmerizing account of Alice Jame's career in individualism.

Discusses the nature of moral disagreement, Nietzsche, Aristotle, heroic societies, and the virtue of of justice.

The essays are interconnected by Davis's central concern with violence, irrationality, and the definition of moral limits during a period when Americans believed they were breaking free from historical constraints and acquiring new powers ...

Current political, social, scientific, education, and literary news written about by many famous authors and reform movements.

This reprint of that important work includes a new preface by the author, in which he situates the book's argument within the historiographic debates of the last two decades.

With this book, Jacques Barzun pays what he describes as an "intellectual debt" to William James-psychologist, philosopher, and, for Barzun, guide and mentor.

With this book, Jacques Barzun pays what he describes as an "intellectual debt" to William James-psychologist, philosopher, and, for Barzun, guide and mentor.