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Rodgers, Daniel T.

 
9780465014163: Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics Since Independence
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ISBN 10: 046501416X ISBN 13: 9780465014163
Editorial: Basic Books, 1989

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Book by Rodgers Daniel T

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Críticas

Daniel Rodgers offers a vivid retelling of the American political experience as a contest of words and a contest for ideas by a people to whom language had become an indispensable tool of revolution and statecraft.--Benjamin Barber, Rutgers University "Contested Truths" is the best synthesis and interpretation of American political ideas since the work of [Richard] Hofstadter...Rogers has made a major contribution to intellectual history.--Tom Bender An absolutely first-rate intellectual treat. I cannot remember when I so enjoyed a book about ideas, history, and politics. A must read for anyone interested in how and why Americans have used and transformed the language of politics for 200 years.--Isaac Kramnick, Cornell University ""Contested Truths" is the best synthesis and interpretation of American political ideas since the work of [Richard] Hofstadter...Rogers has made a major contribution to intellectual history." --Tom Bender "Daniel Rodgers offers a vivid retelling of the American political experience as a contest of words and a contest for ideas by a people to whom language had become an indispensable tool of revolution and statecraft." --Benjamin Barber, Rutgers University "An absolutely first-rate intellectual treat. I cannot remember when I so enjoyed a book about ideas, history, and politics. A must read for anyone interested in how and why Americans have used and transformed the language of politics for 200 years." --Isaac Kramnick, Cornell University

Reseña del editor

Contention, argument, and power have always been the tradition in American political talk. Any country that began in a revolution was bound to have this history. But the language of argument uses particular words with particular, sometimes shifting, meanings and to know what they are and what they meant over time is a critical contribution to political history. It is true that politicians may act as though they are part of no particular ideological tradition, but history shows that, more often than not, they use an understood meaning to enhance their actions. As Daniel Rodgers shows in this book, rhetoric has consequences.

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Editorial
Basic Books
Año de publicación
1989
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
046501416X
ISBN 13 
9780465014163
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
288
Contacto del fabricante
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ISBN 10:  0674167112 ISBN 13:  9780674167117
Editorial: Harvard University Press, 1998
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