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Author Gerstle, Gary, 1954-

Title Liberty and coercion : the paradox of American government from the founding to the present / Gary Gerstle.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015.

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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  320.473 GERSTLE    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 452 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-435) and index.
Contents A liberal central state emerges -- The states and their police power -- Strategies of liberal rule -- Lessons of total war -- Parties, money, corruption -- Agrarian protest and the new liberal state -- Reconfiguring labor-capital relations -- An era of near-permanent war -- Breaking the power of the states -- Conservative revolt.
Subject Federal government -- United States -- History.
Federal-state controversies -- United States -- History.
Abuse of administrative power -- United States -- History.
Political culture -- United States -- History.
United States -- Politics and government.
Abuse of administrative power. (OCoLC)fst00794802
Federal government. (OCoLC)fst00922333
Federal-state controversies. (OCoLC)fst00922371
Political culture. (OCoLC)fst01069263
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780691162942 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0691162948 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
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