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Ameritopia : the unmaking of America / Mark R. Levin.

Summary:

The nationally syndicated radio host explores the philosophical basis of America's foundations as well as the crises facing government today.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781439173244
  • ISBN: 1439173249
  • Physical Description: xiii, 270 pages ; 23 cm
  • Edition: First Threshold Editions edition
  • Publisher: New York : Threshold Editions, 2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-267).
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- Part I. On utopianism. The tyranny of utopia ; Plato's Republic and the perfect society ; Thomas More's Utopia and radical egalitarianism ; Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan and the all-powerful state ; Karl Marx's Communist manifesto and the class struggle -- Part II. On Americanism. John Locke and the nature of man ; The influence of Locke on the founders ; Charles de Montesquieu and republican government ; The influence of Montesquieu on the framers ; Alexis de Tocqueville and Democracy in America -- Part III. On utopianism and Americanism. Post-constitutional America ; Ameritopia.
Subject:
Democracy > United States.
Utopias > United States.
Utopias > Philosophy.
United States > Politics and government > Philosophy.
United States > Politics and government.
Genre:
Utopian fiction.

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