Debating the American State: Liberal Anxieties and the New Leviathan, 1930-1970
ISBN: 9780812291155
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century;

Through a broad and unusual cast of characters--from American social scientists and legal academics, to German refugee intellectuals, to the philosopher John Rawls-- Debating the American State shows that the "leviathan" administrative state was never given a proper and principled justification by the liberals who built and supported it.


Anne M. Kornhauser teaches history at the City College of New York.
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