| Description |
viii, 248 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Tocqueville's vision of history -- The ending of "mixed" government -- "Right" and "left": their conservative misreadings -- A liberal misreading -- Conservatives and liberals -- Popular sovereignty and socialism -- Popular sovereignty and nationalism -- Nationalism and socialism -- The accumulation of opinions -- Progressive liberalism -- Progressives and populists -- Populist anti-Semitism and Germanophilia -- Nation and state -- 1914: the world of yesterday? -- "Modern"? -- The Russian Revolution: a tremendous failure -- 1917 and the Americanization of the world -- The failure of liberalism after 1918 -- 1920-1945: the division of the world -- Misuse and misreading of "Fascism" -- Misuse and misreading of "totalitarianism" -- Misuse and misreading of national socialism as an "ideology" -- The United States in 1945 and thereafter -- The decline of the state -- The declining function of "classes" -- "Tyranny of the majority"? "Public opinion" and its misreadings -- Decline of privacy, rise of publicity -- Publicity and celebrity -- Changes in the recording and knowledge of history -- Fear and hatred -- Triumph and disappearance of "liberalism" -- The rise of criminality -- A new, profound, division -- Ideas and beliefs -- Hope, against fear. |
| Subject |
Political science -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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Ideology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
0300107730 alkaline paper |
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0300116934 paperback |
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