Peaceful revolution : constitutional change and American culture from Progressivism to the New Deal
Few Americans understand the Constitution’s workings. Its real importance for the average citizen is as an enduring reminder of the moral vision that shaped the nation's founding. Maxwell Bloomfield looks at the broader appeal that constitutional idealism has always made to the American imagination through publications and films.
Print Book, English, 2000
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2000
xi, 209 pages ; 24 cm
9780674003040, 0674003047
43634367
Preface 1. The Founders' Constitution and Republican Culture 2. Modern Constitutionalism and Progressive Reform 3. The Selling of War Socialism 4. Constitutional Conservatism in a Decade of Normalcy 5. Symbols of Authority in a Collapsing Economy 6. Imagining a New Constitutional Order 7. Inauguration Day, 1933 Afterword Notes Index