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Storybook Truths about America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2005

James A. Morone
Affiliation:
Brown University

Extract

Fifty years ago Louis Hartz set out to tell the “storybook truth” about America. Despite being almost risibly dense, The Liberal Tradition in America neatly captures the popular folklore – this is what you might hear at the Chamber of Commerce. Meanwhile, academics are often flatly contemptuous: Hartz mangled history, muffed quotations, and did not bother with rules of evidence. Even so, for better and for worse, his version of an all-American fable lives on as an enigmatic, controversial, and enduring political science classic.

Type
Research Article
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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