Suchergebnisse

Telling stories: vernacular versus formal democracy -- Between savagery and civilization: the Whiskey Rebellion and a democratic middle way -- The privatizing state: the pioneers and the closing of the legal commons -- Settler self-governance: democratic politics on the frontier -- From nothing to start, into being: the anti-rent wars, the Indian question, and the triumph of liberalism -- Conclusion: "The wayward, multitudinous people

Throughout our history, Americans have been simultaneously inspired and seduced by the American presidency and concerned about the misuse of presidential power-from the time of Lincoln, Wilson, and FDR to Nixon, Reagan, and George W. Bush-as a grave threat to the United States. In Bad for Democracy, Dana D. Nelson goes beyond blaming particular presidents for jeopardizing the delicate balance of the Constitution to argue that it is the office of the presidency itself that endangers the great American experiment. The emotional impulse to see the president as a hero, Nelson contends, has ceded o

Throughout our history, Americans have been simultaneously inspired and seduced by the American presidency and concerned about the misuse of presidential power-from the time of Lincoln, Wilson, and FDR to Nixon, Reagan, and George W. Bush-as a grave threat to the United States. In Bad for Democracy, Dana D. Nelson goes beyond blaming particular presidents for jeopardizing the delicate balance of the Constitution to argue that it is the office of the presidency itself that endangers the great American experiment. The emotional impulse to see the president as a hero, Nelson contends, has ceded o.

dana d. nelson is Professor of English and Social Theory at the University of Kentucky. She is currently co-editing two projects,Materializing Democracy with Russ Castronovo, and a special issue ofAmerican Literature on "Violence, the Body and `The South'" with Houston Baker.