Introduction -- A word about the title -- Chapter 1: How Rousseau became our guide -- Chapter 2: Revolution -- Chapter 3: Reaction -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5: Anxiety for the individual -- Chapter 6: Slavery's abolition -- Chapter 7: Reconstruction -- Chapter 8: Populism's challenge to exploitive business -- Chapter 9: The urban soul of Progressivism -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12: Domestic innovation and the new international cooperation in the wake of World War II -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14: Philosophy needs history -- Conclusion.
Summary:
"Inequality seems to be the only topic under discussion today. But what do we actually mean by equality, and what did the American Founders have in mind? This work, a history of ideas and at the same time a parallel study of social and political dimensions, is intended for college educators, commentators and public officials"-- Provided by publisher.
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