This Is Not Civil Rights: Discovering Rights Talk in 1939 America

by George I. Lovell

Since at least the time of Tocqueville, observers have noted that Americans draw on the language of rights when expressing dissatisfaction with political and social conditions. As the United States confronts a complicated set of twenty-first-century problems, that tradition continues, with Americans invoking symbolic events of the founding era to frame calls for change. Most observers have been critical of such "rights talk." Scholars on the left...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226494047
• ISBN13: 9780226494043
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.0" x 7.4"