The Democratic Imagination in America: Conversations with Our Past (Princeton Legacy Library, 429)

Russell Hanson discovers in the history of democratic rhetoric in the United States a series of essential contests" over the meaning of democracy that have occurred in periods of political and socio-economic change.

Originally published in 1985.

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