"Based on a two-part international conference, held in Washington (June 30-July 2, 1986) and Paris (October 22-23, 1986) on the occasion of the one-hundredth anniversary of the gift from France to the United States of the Statue of Liberty. The conference ... was co-sponsored by the West European Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Comité officiel franco-américain pour la célébration du centenaire de la statue de la liberté"--P. ix. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
(cont) The Jacobin and liberal traditions / Jean Rivero -- The Jacobin and liberal contributions to the founding of the Second and Third French republics (with an epilogue on America) / George Armstrong Kelly -- The birth of America's second Bill of Rights / William E. Leuchtenburg -- Liberal models in France, 1900-1930 / René Remond -- From the ancients to the moderns: the reasons for the liberal revival / Jean-Claude Casanova -- Free persons and the common good / Michael Novak -- Michael Novak on liberalism / Pierre Manent. Theory, practice, and symbols of liberty / Joseph Klaits and Michael H. Haltzel -- The private life of liberty / Donald R. Kelley -- The rights of the individual and the general will in revolutionary thought / François Bourricaud -- Liberty and the illusions of individualism in Tocqueville / Jean-Claude Lamberti -- Tocqueville and some American views of liberty / James T. Schleifer -- Liberalism in the Second Empire and the influence of America: Edouard Laboulaye and his circle / Walter D. Gray -- Bartholdi's Liberty in the French political context / Maurice Agulhon -- The meaning of liberty in the Age of Emancipation / Eric Foner --
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