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Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America

By Levin , Mark Reed

Book information

Publisher
Simon and Schuster;Threshold Editions
Year
2012
ISBN
9781439173244, 9781439173282, 1439173249
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
408 kB (417844 bytes)
Pages
270\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Democracy;Democracy--United States;Politics and go

Description

Levin explores the philosophical basis of America's foundations and the crisis that the government faces today.;Introduction -- Part I. On utopianism: the tyranny of utopia; Plato's Republic and the myth of the perfect society; Thomas More's Utopia and the loss of individualism; Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan and the all powerful state; Karl Marx's Communist manifesto and radical egalitarianism -- Part II. On Americanism: John Locke and the nature of man; the influence of Locke on the founders; Charles Montesquieu and republican government; the influence of Montesquieu on the framers; Alexis de Tocqueville and Democracy in America -- Part III. On utopia and America: post-constitutional America; Ameritopia.

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