The present age : progress and anarchy in modern America / Robert Nisbet.

The present age : progress and anarchy in modern America /

"The Present Age, Robert Nisbet's analysis of the United States in the period after 1914, provides an original take on "the American century." This learned, elegantly written essay extends the analyses of Tocqueville and Bryce of the threats that bureaucracy, centralization, and...

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Main Author: Nisbet, Robert A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, [2003]
Series:Online library of liberty.
Subjects:
Bureaucracy > United States > History > 20th century.
Federal government > United States > History > 20th century.
State, The.
World politics > 1945-1989.
United States > Defenses > Economic aspects > History > 20th century.
United States > Foreign relations > 20th century.
United States > Social conditions.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The prevalence of war
  • The new absolutism
  • The loose individual.

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