Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I Foundations, 1780s-1860s -- 1 A Liberal Central State Emerges -- 2 The States and Their Police Power -- PART II Improvisations, 1860s-1920s -- 3 Strategies of Liberal Rule -- 4 Lessons of Total War -- 5 Parties, Money, Corruption -- PART III Compromises, 1920s-1940s -- 6 Agrarian Protest and the New Liberal State -- 7 Reconfiguring Labor-Capital Relations -- PART IV American Leviathan, 1940s-2010s -- 8 An Era of Near-Permanent War -- 9 Breaking the Power of the States -- 10 Conservative Revolt -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Index

Author(s): Gary Gerstle
Published: 2015
Pages: 452
Categories: Abuse of administrative power