A Fox News analyst argues for a redefinition of conservatism that will modernize outdated Republican ideas and enable a younger generation to embrace the party, defining her views about Individualism while contending that universal, conservative beliefs can be adapted to revitalize Republican political strength.
American individualism ; The challenge to liberty
"A comprehensive look at the foundations, and current state of individualism in the US, including an assessment of the implications for American democracy and citizenship"--
948 With regard to the most famous of such guarantees , the Magna Carta , Alan Harding finds that it was the last of many such medieval negotiated relationships and not the first bill of individual rights . He writes that it was " the ...
The Roots of American Individualism traces the origins of individualist ideas to the turbulent political controversies of the Jacksonian era (1820–1850) and explores their enduring influence on American politics and culture.
American Individualism
Drawing on the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin, Turner offers an original reconstruction of democratic individualism in American thought.
Why do Americans have so much trouble seeing eye to eye today? Is this new? Was there ever an American consensus? This work explores the cultural differences leading to today's seemingly intractable political divides.
Based on conversations with hundreds of Americans, this volume reveals the self-understanding of Americans as a people and as a nation "The contemporary benchmark from which to look back and look forward in the continuing inquiry about ...
This volume brings together seven of the United States' most distinguished scholars, representing the fields of anthropology, economics, government, history, literature, and philosophy.
She supports the ambiguous theory that the African-American characters found in these six authors' works are reinventing themselves by passing as white.