American Credo: The Place of Ideas in American Politics

by Michael Foley

Book Overview

American society may be hostile to the thought of ideologies, but it possesses a sophisticated but little understood ability to engage in deep conflicts over political ideas, while at the same time reducing adversarial positions to legitimate derivatives of American history and development. The study asks how this occurs; how the sources, traditions and usages of core ideas and their derivative compounds animate political discourse and structure the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199232679
• ISBN13: 9780199232673
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 492 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"