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1 online resource (733 p.) |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition -- Introduction -- I. Clan, Tribe, and City -- Between Worlds -- Souls and Secrets -- Politics and Fraternity -- Lessons and Legacies -- II. Fraternity and the Myths of Identity -- Eros and Community -- The Dying Animal -- My Brother, My Enemy -- Sciences and Sentiments -- "The secret sits . . ." -- III. Fraternity and Modern Politics -- Aliens and Strangers -- Resistance -- Generation -- Recognition -- IV. The Ambiguous Ideal: Fraternity in America -- Inheritances |
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The Homes of the Homeless -- Wanderer's Star -- Misleaders and Guides -- V. Puritanism: The Covenants of Fraternity -- "This nation, under God . . ." -- "The fault of dullness is within us . . ." -- "No neglect of means . . ." -- "Without despising life . . ." -- "Integral and conservant causes ... " -- VI. John Winthrop: e Statesman -- "More than nature demands . . ." -- Citizens and Magistrates -- Profession and Action -- Promise and Peril -- Roger Williams and Anti-Politics -- Puritan Statecraft: e Legacy -- VII. The Fruits of the Earth: Cain in New England -- "Say not, I am a child . . ." |
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Camels and Needles -- John Wise: Statecraft Revisited -- Edwards: "God must be near . . ." -- VIII. The American Enlightenment -- Old and New -- Heredity: The Bonds of Race -- Environment: The Brotherhood of Place -- The Brotherhood of Man -- Politics as Mechanics -- Taming the Great Beast -- James Wilson: The Moral Instinct -- Wilson: The City and the World -- IX. The Jeffersonians -- "Limited to a narrow space . . ." -- Awakenings and Architects -- "We are all Republicans . . ." -- Jefferson: "The Great Principles . . ." -- "The plain common sense . . ." -- "The hopes of the world . . ." |
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X. The Divided House -- Excelsior -- Romance and Transcendence -- "Brothers will you meet me. . . ?" -- Old Romans, New Liberals -- Cries of Race and Clan -- White Hopes, Dark Presences -- Battlecries of Freedom -- XI. Emerson and Thoreau: The All and the One -- America's Philosopher -- Living in the All -- Each Man a State -- Time and Eternity -- The Radical in Politics -- "Something military . . ." -- XII. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Citizen -- Puritanism Revisited -- Blackness -- Veils and Masks -- One Twenty-Millionth of a Sovereign -- The Symptom of Brotherhood |
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XIII. Herman Melville: The Pilgrim -- "A monstrous allegory . . ." -- "A poor unit . . ." -- The Innocents -- Dwelling Among Brethren -- "Sitting up with a corpse . . ." -- XIV. The Gilded Age -- "Tenting tonight . . ." -- "The bitch-goddess . . ." -- Progress and Poverty -- Protest and Portent -- "Against the ways of Tubal Cain . . ." -- Lloyd: Populist Militant -- XV. Whitman and Bellamy: Nations of Lovers -- The Song of Myself -- The Base of All Metaphysics -- The City Invincible -- Big Brother -- "Striving to be absorbed . . ." -- XVI. Mark Twain: The Teacher |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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"Never tell the naked truth . . ." |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
McWilliams Barndt, Susan
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| ISBN |
9780268205331 |
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0268205337 |
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