Beschreibung:
LOUIS HARTZ (1919-1986) was a graduate of Harvard University who went on to become a political scientist and advocate of American exceptionalism. He is also the author of The Liberal Tradition in America.
Hartz's influential interpretation of american political thought since the Revolution. He contends that americanca gave rise to a new concept of a liberal society, a ?liberal tradition? that has been central to our experience of events both at home and abroad. New Introduction by Tom Wicker; Index.