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2009

Format:	Book
Author:	Purdy, Jedediah, 1974-
Title:	A tolerable anarchy : rebels, reactionaries, and the making of American freedom / Jedediah Purdy.
Edition:	1st ed.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Description:	294 pages ; 20 cm
Summary:	From 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.
Subjects:	Liberty -- Political aspects -- United States -- History. Liberty -- Social aspects -- United States -- History. Liberty -- Philosophy. National characteristics, American. United States -- Politics and government.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-283) and index.
Contents:	Introduction: 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.
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LCCN:	2008049552
ISBN:	9781400044474 1400044472
Other Number:	232980271
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Control Number:	237188
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Call Number:	320.97301 Purdy

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