Peaceful Revolution: Constitutional Change and American Culture from Progressivism to the New Deal

by Maxwell Bloomfield

Book Overview

Although Americans claim to revere the Constitution, relatively few understand its workings. Its real importance for the average citizen is as an enduring reminder of the moral vision that shaped the nation's founding. Yet scholars have paid little attention to the broader appeal that constitutional idealism has always made to the American imagination through publications and films. Maxwell Bloomfield draws upon such neglected sources to illustrate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674003047
• ISBN13: 9780674003040
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"