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Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present

Gary Gerstle 2015 © Princeton University Press
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  • 9780691162942 (hardcover)
  • 9781400888436 (ebook)
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Foundations, 1780s–1860s
    • 1: A Liberal Central State Emerges
    • 2: The States and Their Police Power
  • Part II: Improvisations, 1860s–1920s
    • 3: Strategies of Liberal Rule
    • 4: Lessons of Total War
    • 5: Parties, Money, Corruption
  • Part III: Compromises, 1920s–1940s
    • 6: Agrarian Protest and the New Liberal State
    • 7: Reconfiguring Labor-Capital Relations
  • Part IV: American Leviathan, 1940s–2010s
    • 8: An Era of Near-Permanent War
    • 9: Breaking the Power of the States
    • 10: Conservative Revolt
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
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