Contested Truths

Keywords in American Politics Since Independence
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-674-16711-7
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 215 mm x 141 mm, Gewicht: 364 g

Contention, argument, and power have always been the tradition in American political talk. Any country that began in a revolution was bound to have this history. But the language of argument uses particular words with particular, sometimes shifting, meanings and to know what they are and what they meant over time is a critical contribution to political history. It is true that politicians may act as though they are part of no particular ideological tradition, but history shows that, more often than not, they use an understood meaning to enhance their actions. As Daniel T. Rodgers shows in this book, rhetoric has consequences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rodgers, Daniel T.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Rodgers, Daniel T.
Daniel T. Rodgers is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University.