The House of Truth

A Washington Political Salon and Foundations of American Liberalism

Brad Snyder (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

824 Seiten

2017
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-026198-6 (ISBN)

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The story of a how the inhabitants of a modest row house in the Washington neighborhood of Dupont Circle in the early years of the 20th century helped to shape the future of American liberalism.

In 1912, a group of young and ambitious bureaucrats and thought-leaders, disillusioned by the progress of change in the Taft Administration, transformed the house they shared into the capital's foremost political salon. Self-mockingly referred to as the "House of Truth," the row house was the residence of the young Felix Frankfurter and the aspiring journalist Walter Lippmann, and their guests included Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Herbert Hoover, and sculptor Gutzon Borglum (later the creator of the Mount Rushmore monument).

Weaving together the stories and intellectual trajectories of these figures Brad Snyder shows how the progress of their thinking about government and policy, shifted from a firm belief in progressivism--the belief that the government should protect its workers and regulate monopolies--into what we call liberalism, the belief that government can improve citizens' lives through legislation while still being prevented from abridging their civil liberties and eventually civil rights. This fascinating historical and biographical narrative reimagines and recreates the birth of the minimum wage, child-welfare laws, banking insurance, Social Security, and other programs that we now take for granted. In essence, the origins of the New Deal and American Liberalism can be traced to a row house in Dupont Circle.

Brad Snyder teaches law at the University of Wisconsin and is currently Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University.

Dedication
Introduction
Chapter 1: Expanding Horizons
Chapter 2: 1727 Nineteenth Street
Chapter 3: The Call of the Moose
Chapter 4: The Center of the Universe
Chapter 5: Buddha
Chapter 6: The Soldier's Faith
Chapter 7: Temperamentally Unfit
Chapter 8: Our Founder
Chapter 9: Fighting Valentine's Fight
Chapter 10: The House at War
Chapter 11: One Man War
Chapter 12: Uniting the Labor Army
Chapter 13: The Inquiry
Chapter 14: The Wonderful One
Chapter 15: The H/T Cannot Be Re-constituted
Chapter 16: Harvard's Dangerous Men
Chapter 17: Touched with Fire
Chapter 18: Protestant of Nordic Stock
Chapter 19: We Live By Symbols
Chapter 20: The 1924 Election and the Basic Issues of Liberalism
Chapter 21: Eloquence May Set Fire to Reason
Chapter 22: A Fly on an Elephant
Chapter 23: No Ordinary Case
Chapter 24: This World Cares More for Red than for Black
Chapter 25: A Damn Poor Psychologist
Chapter 26: The Happy Warrior
Chapter 27: Freedom for the Thought that We Hate
Chapter 28: America's Shrine for Political Democracy
Chapter 29: The Best Men
Chapter 30: A Very Great Beginning
Chapter 31: The Hard Case Has Melted
Epilogue
Appendix
Photo Credits and Bibliography
Acknowledgments

Erscheinungsdatum	04.02.2017
Zusatzinfo	50 black and white images
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 239 mm
Gewicht	1261 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-19-026198-6 / 0190261986
ISBN-13	978-0-19-026198-6 / 9780190261986
Zustand	Neuware