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| ISBN: | 9780807885086
0807885088
0807831719
9780807831717
080788507X
9780807885079
9780807831717
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | "A Caravan book"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-254) and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
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English.
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| Summary: | Americans live in a liberal democracy. Yet, although democracy is widely touted today, liberalism is scorned by both the right and the left. The United States stands poised between its liberal democratic tradition and the illiberal alternatives of liberalism's critics. In an engaging and informative discussion, McGowan offers a ringing endorsement of American liberalism's basic principles, values, and commitments. He explains that the liberalism of the founders distributed power widely in order to limit the power any one entity could exercise over others. Their aim was to provide for all an ef.
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| Other form: | Print version: McGowan, John, 1953- American liberalism. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2007 9780807831717 0807831719
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