Drift and Mastery - 9780299304843
Un libro in lingua di Walter Lippmann Leuchtenburg William E. (INT) Sitaraman Ganesh (FRW) edito da Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 2015
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In 1914, a brilliant young political journalist published a book arguing that the United States had entered a period of “drift”—a lack of control over rapidly changing forces in society. He highlighted the tensions between expansion and consolidation, traditionalism and progressivism, and emotion and rationality. He wrote to convince readers that they could balance these tensions: they could be organized, efficient, and functional without sacrificing impulse, choice, or liberty. Mastery over drift is attainable, Walter Lippmann argued, through diligent attention to facts and making active choices. Democracy, Lippman wrote, is “a use of freedom, an embrace of opportunity.”
Lippman’s Drift and Mastery became one of the most important and influential documents of the Progressive Movement. It remains a valuable text for understanding the political thought of early twentieth-century America and a lucid exploration of timeless themes in American government and politics. Distinguished historian Walter Leuchtenberg’s 1986 introduction and notes are retained in this edition.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Drift and Mastery
- Sottotitolo: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Walter Lippmann Leuchtenburg William E. (INT) Sitaraman Ganesh (FRW)
- Editore: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
- Collana: Univ of Wisconsin Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 13 Maggio '15
- Genere: POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Argomento: Progressivism (United States politics)
- Pagine: 177
- ISBN-10: 0299304841
- EAN-13: 9780299304843