Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-440) and index.
Contents:
pt. 1. A history of American democracy. -- The second century -- Tocqueville reversed -- pt. 2. A historical interpretation. -- The automobile century: the material development of American life -- The leap across the sea: the development of an American nation -- The bourgeois interlude: the half-century when American civilization was urban and urbane -- The two empires: the passing of the Anglo-American age in the history of the world -- The elective monarchy: the degeneration of popular democracy to a publicity contest -- Mutations of minds and morals: the transformations of American thinking -- Inheritances and prospects: the passage from a democratic order to a bureaucratic state -- pt. 3. Dictatress of the world? -- The third century: dictatress of the world.
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