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001 2008049552
003 DLC
005 20090423130917.0
008 081112s2009 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008049552
020 $a9781400044474
020 $a1400044472
035 $a(OCoLC)232980271
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050 00 $aJC599.U5$bP87 2009
082 00 $a320.97301$222
100 1 $aPurdy, Jedediah,$d1974-
245 12 $aA tolerable anarchy :$brebels, reactionaries, and the making of American freedom /$cJedediah Purdy.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c2009.
300 $a294 p. ;$c20 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [275]-283) and index.
520 $aFrom the author of "For Common Things" comes a provocative look at the meaning of American freedom. Purdy works from the stories of individuals: Frederick Douglass urging Americans to extend freedom to slaves, Ralph Waldo Emerson arguing for self-fulfillment, and others.
505 0 $aIntroduction: The sensation of freedom -- Declarations of independence -- The search for civic dignity -- War and its equivalents -- Is freedom empty? Citizenship, sodomy, and the meaning of life -- American utopias -- The economics of 1776, and today -- The value of freedom -- Fragments of a free economy.
650 0 $aLiberty$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aLiberty$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aLiberty$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, American.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government.