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Liberalism and republicanism in the historical imagination

by Joyce Oldham Appleby, PhD

1992 351 pages eng

The author claims that liberal assumptions color everything American, from ideas about human nature to fears about big government. Not the dreaded "L" word of the 1988 presidential campaign; liberalism in its historical context emerged from the modern faith in free inquiry, natural rights, economic …

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